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17th Century Timeline
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1. John Evelyn's forestry book - Sylva - is published in England.
1606
1665
1607
1664
2. Torture is outlawed in England.
1616
1652
1624
1640
3. The Treaty of Westminster ends the war between England and the Republic of the United Provinces.
1663
1664
1681
1674
4. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India
1641
1627
1637
1632
5. Cardinal Richelieu allies with Swedish Protestant forces in the Thirty Years' War to counter Ferdinand II's expansion.
1640
1629
1648
1682
6. Emperor Ferdinand II defeats the Bohemian rebels in the Battle of White Mountain.
1609
1620
1655
1655
7. Mehmed K
1661
1667
1662
1663
8. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.
1644
1603
1696
1694
9. Cape Town founded by the Dutch EastIndia Company in South Africa.
1672
1667
1652
1610
10. Rampjaar in the Netherlands
1690
1605
1672
1663
11. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Pernambuco and founds Dutch Brazil.
1609
1618
1603
1630
12. Lynching of Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis de Witt in the Hague
1672
1689
1645
1700
13. The Brownist Pilgrims arrive in the Mayflower at Cape Cod
1620
1603
1660
1618
14. The Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas - the oldest existing university in Asia - established by the Dominican Order in Manila
1608
1693
1696
1611
15. As chief minister - Cardinal Richelieu centralises power in France.
1667
1624
1607
1637
16. The Brownist Pilgrims arrive in the Mayflower at Cape Cod
1690
1620
1687
1678
17. Lithuanian Civil War
1644
1601
1700
1618
18. Bethlen Gabor allies with the Ottomans and an invasion of Moldavia takes place. The Polish suffer a disaster at Cecora on the River Prut.
1620
1627
1664
1690
19. The Netherlands and Spain agree to a Twelve Years' Truce in the Eighty Years' War.
1607
1609
1673
1664
20. Emperor Fasilides expels the Catholic Patriarch Afonso Mendes and several Jesuit missionaries from Ethiopia.
1634
1624
1621
1645
21. The Mughal Empire nearly bans the EastIndia Company in response to pirate Henry Every's capture of the Ganj-i-Sawai
1644
1667
1634
1695
22. A Habsburg council of war is held in Vienna.
1683
1619
1616
1611
23. The Tokugawa Shogunate institutes Sakoku- foreigners are expelled and no one is allowed to enter or leave Japan.
1661
1664
1641
1601
24. The Battle of Vienna finishes the Ottoman Empire's hegemony in south-eastern Europe.
1682
1683
1607
1640
25. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
1661
1687
1616
1636
26. Polish-Ottoman War.
1663
1662
1672
1688
27. The 1700 Cascadia earthquake (magnitude 9) occurs off the coast of the Pacific Northwest; Japan is struck by a tsunami.
1648
1660
1700
1606
28. France takes full political and military control over its colonial possessions in New France.
1651
1647
1649
1663
29. The Treaty of Zurawno brings Polish-Ottoman hostilities to a halt.
1683
1618
1676
1665
30. Quebec City founded by Samuel de Champlain in New France (present-day Canada).
1608
1689
1694
1664
31. Flight of the Earls (the fleeing of most of the native Gaelic aristocracy) occurs from County Donegal in the west of Ulster in Ireland.
1631
1606
1664
1607
32. A Habsburg council of war is held in Vienna.
1683
1601
1606
1620
33. The Great Fire of London.
1632
1672
1666
1629
34. The Battle of St. Gotthard - Count Raimondo Montecuccoli defeats the Ottomans. The Peace of Vasvar
1633
1610
1664
1674
35. The Great Plague of London.
1632
1665
1672
1637
36. Pedro de Peralta - governor of New Mexico - establishes the settlement of Santa Fe.
1603
1639
1641
1610
37. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.
1629
1695
1610
1606
38. France takes full political and military control over its colonial possessions in New France.
1618
1663
1645
1641
39. Treaty of Vienna ends anti-Habsburg uprising in Royal Hungary.
1666
1606
1654
1642
40. Emperor Fasilides founds the city of Gondar - which becomes the capital of Ethiopia for the next two centuries.
1620
1636
1603
1689
41. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.
1629
1689
1688
1616
42. The Irish Rebellion.
1634
1641
1682
1619
43. The Ottomans capture Crete.
1660
1669
1694
1621
44. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.
1620
1626
1655
1682
45. The earliest known first-class cricket match took place in Sussex.
1619
1682
1634
1697
46. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.
1641
1605
1616
1648
47. The Manchus start invading China. Their conquest eventually topples the Ming Dynasty.
1695
1620
1645
1618
48. The Glorious Revolution starts with the Dutch Republic invading England - England becomes a constitutional monarchy.
1648
1688
1629
1672
49. The Long War between the Ottoman Empire and Austria is ended with the Peace of Zsitvatorok - Austria abandons Transylvania.
1674
1606
1633
1611
50. Giovanni Battista Pamphili is elected PopeInnocent X at the Papal conclave of 1644.
1644
1676
1672
1694