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17th Century Timeline
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1. Time of Troubles - Vasili IV becomes Tzar of Russia.
1606
1610
1624
1667
2. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.
1651
1645
1690
1636
3. Portugal defeats the Kongo Empire at the Battle of Mbwila.
1655
1605
1627
1665
4. The 1700 Cascadia earthquake (magnitude 9) occurs off the coast of the Pacific Northwest; Japan is struck by a tsunami.
1645
1700
1672
1661
5. Quebec City founded by Samuel de Champlain in New France (present-day Canada).
1609
1666
1610
1608
6. The Treaty of Karlowitz ends the Great Turkish War.
1664
1699
1634
1689
7. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.
1606
1700
1700
1692
8. Shimabara Rebellion of Japanese Christians - ronin and peasants against Edo.
1618
1694
1637
1616
9. Thomas Savery demonstrates his first steam engine to the Royal Society.
1689
1641
1699
1672
10. As chief minister - Cardinal Richelieu centralises power in France.
1672
1664
1624
1695
11. The Treaty of Westminster ends the war between England and the Republic of the United Provinces.
1620
1624
1674
1689
12. The reign of the Kangxi Emperor of China begins.
1667
1661
1620
1620
13. Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman achieves the first recorded European sighting of New Zealand.
1688
1642
1623
1672
14. The Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas - the oldest existing university in Asia - established by the Dominican Order in Manila
1682
1664
1672
1611
15. The Great Turkish War halts the Ottoman Empire's expansion into Europe.
1620
1648
1618
1667
16. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
1669
1696
1687
1634
17. Peace Treaty of Lisbon between Spain and Portugal recognizes Portugal as independent country.
1683
1668
1693
1683
18. The Manchus start invading China. Their conquest eventually topples the Ming Dynasty.
1692
1629
1642
1618
19. Aurochs go extinct.
1627
1620
1640
1688
20. The Time of Troubles in Russia ends with the establishment of the House of Romanov which rules until 1917.
1613
1603
1663
1644
21. 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
1632
1609
1639
1689
22. Lynching of Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis de Witt in the Hague
1603
1672
1661
1603
23. The Great Turkish War halts the Ottoman Empire's expansion into Europe.
1667
1672
1692
1663
24. Capture of Ormuz; The island of Hormuz was captured by an Anglo-Persian force from Portuguese.
1649
1662
1652
1622
25. John Locke publishes his first 'Letter Concerning Toleration'.
1627
1689
1694
1621
26. The Glorious Revolution starts with the Dutch Republic invading England - England becomes a constitutional monarchy.
1623
1665
1642
1688
27. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu
1631
1623
1632
1616
28. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.
1661
1688
1620
1632
29. The Battle of Vienna finishes the Ottoman Empire's hegemony in south-eastern Europe.
1651
1683
1652
1605
30. Ottoman campaign to help the Ukrainian Cossacks. John Sobieski defeats the Ottomans at the second battle of Khotyn (1673).
1672
1660
1602
1654
31. Peter the Great becomes joint ruler of Russia (sole tsar in 1696).
1641
1682
1636
1660
32. Russia and the Ottoman Empire commence the Russo-Turkish Wars.
1676
1654
1647
1625
33. The Ottomans capture Crete.
1613
1669
1697
1624
34. The Great Fire of London.
1640
1683
1672
1666
35. The 1700 Cascadia earthquake (magnitude 9) occurs off the coast of the Pacific Northwest; Japan is struck by a tsunami.
1668
1700
1639
1627
36. The War of Devolution; France invades the Netherlands. The Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle (1668) brings this to a halt.
1667
1700
1636
1689
37. Cape Town founded by the Dutch EastIndia Company in South Africa.
1609
1693
1624
1652
38. Tokugawa Ieyasu seizes control of Japan and establishes the Tokugawa Shogunate - beginning the Edo period that lasts until 1869.
1676
1610
1694
1603
39. 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
1629
1644
1601
1647
40. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.
1620
1624
1633
1606
41. Maffeo Barberini is elected Pope Urban VIII at the Papal conclave of 1623.
1682
1645
1674
1623
42. The Netherlands and Spain agree to a Twelve Years' Truce in the Eighty Years' War.
1609
1630
1674
1662
43. Antoni van Leeuwenhoek is the first to observe microbes with a homemade microscope - using samples he collected from his teeth scrapings - raindrops - and his own feces. He calls them 'animalcules.'
1673
1623
1660
1606
44. Dutch EastIndia Company founded. Its success contributes to the Dutch Golden Age.
1624
1636
1602
1621
45. The Siege of Derry.
1601
1645
1639
1688
46. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.
1689
1655
1633
1616
47. The Tokugawa Shogunate institutes Sakoku- foreigners are expelled and no one is allowed to enter or leave Japan.
1700
1689
1620
1641
48. Mehmed K
1641
1654
1601
1692
49. La Salle explores the length of the Mississippi River and claims Louisiana for France.
1690
1682
1620
1699
50. Seven-year-old Mehmed IV becomes sultan.
1606
1647
1664
1641