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17th Century Timeline
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1. Dutch EastIndia Company founded. Its success contributes to the Dutch Golden Age.
1672
1644
1602
1697
2. British troops capture New Amsterdam and rename it New York.
1672
1676
1639
1664
3. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.
1609
1654
1633
1648
4. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.
1690
1606
1694
1700
5. The Bank of England is established.
1694
1667
1695
1601
6. Ren
1607
1641
1680
1700
7. The Karposh rebellion is crushed in present-day Republic of Macedonia - Skopje is retaken by the Ottoman Turks. Karposh is killed - and the rebels are defeated. Giles Cory was pressed to death during the Salem witch trials in the 1690s
1609
1652
1625
1689
8. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.
1624
1620
1619
1676
9. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.
1652
1605
1603
1682
10. The Portuguese Restoration War led to the end of the Iberian Union.
1640
1618
1655
1680
11. Tokugawa Ieyasu seizes control of Japan and establishes the Tokugawa Shogunate - beginning the Edo period that lasts until 1869.
1647
1622
1607
1603
12. The Ottomans capture Crete.
1669
1672
1692
1641
13. The Glorious Revolution starts with the Dutch Republic invading England - England becomes a constitutional monarchy.
1648
1688
1627
1606
14. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.
1605
1613
1618
1629
15. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.
1661
1606
1631
1644
16. China conquers the Kingdom of Tungning and annexes Taiwan.
1606
1683
1672
1672
17. The reign of the Kangxi Emperor of China begins.
1640
1632
1695
1661
18. Edict of Fontainebleau outlaws Protestantism in France. King Charles II dies
1685
1644
1663
1622
19. The earliest known first-class cricket match took place in Sussex.
1672
1697
1639
1601
20. William ascends to the throne over England - Scotland - and Ireland.
1689
1688
1648
1637
21. Ottoman war with Venice. The Ottomans invade Crete and capture Canea.
1645
1607
1672
1610
22. Peter the Great becomes joint ruler of Russia (sole tsar in 1696).
1619
1682
1620
1654
23. Portugal defeats the Kongo Empire at the Battle of Mbwila.
1667
1676
1648
1665
24. The Long War between the Ottoman Empire and Austria is ended with the Peace of Zsitvatorok - Austria abandons Transylvania.
1688
1661
1606
1610
25. The Netherlands and Spain agree to a Twelve Years' Truce in the Eighty Years' War.
1641
1609
1622
1682
26. Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge founded.
1688
1665
1639
1660
27. Battle of N
1640
1634
1642
1640
28. Portugal defeats the Kongo Empire at the Battle of Mbwila.
1667
1665
1605
1670
29. Bethlen Gabor - Prince of Transylvania joins Protestant Rebels.
1647
1648
1618
1685
30. Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before theInquisition.
1663
1688
1639
1633
31. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.
1690
1648
1700
1676
32. Mary II of England dies
1694
1640
1608
1609
33. The Battle of Killiecrankie is fought between Jacobite and Williamite forces in Highland Perthshire
1662
1661
1633
1689
34. Quebec City founded by Samuel de Champlain in New France (present-day Canada).
1620
1700
1605
1608
35. William ascends to the throne over England - Scotland - and Ireland.
1601
1645
1689
1648
36. Time of Troubles - Vasili IV becomes Tzar of Russia.
1645
1672
1618
1606
37. The Manchu conquer China ending the Ming Dynasty. The subsequent Qing Dynasty rules until 1912.
1603
1674
1644
1661
38. The Portuguese Restoration War led to the end of the Iberian Union.
1640
1644
1652
1645
39. Polish
1692
1613
1683
1674
40. The Defenestration of Prague
1636
1637
1672
1618
41. Michael the Brave (first unificator of Romania) - voivode of Wallachia - Moldavia and Transylvania - is assassinated by the order of the Habsburg general Giorgio Basta at C
1648
1606
1601
1641
42. Jamestown - Virginia - is settled as what would become the first permanent English colony in North America.
1695
1669
1667
1607
43. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
1613
1687
1603
1666
44. Mount Vesuvius erupts
1631
1613
1661
1672
45. Mary II of England dies
1642
1694
1634
1636
46. Battle of Kinsale - one of the most important battles in Irish history - fought.
1674
1620
1601
1667
47. Famine in France kills 2 million.
1699
1616
1692
1667
48. The War of Devolution; France invades the Netherlands. The Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle (1668) brings this to a halt.
1636
1665
1667
1687
49. Lynching of Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis de Witt in the Hague
1672
1688
1699
1606
50. The College of William and Mary is founded in Williamsburg - Virginia by a royal charter.
1611
1692
1664
1693