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17th Century Timeline
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1. La Salle explores the length of the Mississippi River and claims Louisiana for France.
1688
1631
1654
1682
2. After modernizing his army - Abbas I expands the Persian Empire by capturing territory from the Ottomans and the Portuguese.
1682
1672
1676
1603
3. The Defenestration of Prague
1674
1618
1665
1665
4. Franco-Dutch War.
1681
1672
1632
1605
5. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.
1674
1655
1689
1622
6. The College of William and Mary is founded in Williamsburg - Virginia by a royal charter.
1647
1665
1693
1667
7. British troops capture New Amsterdam and rename it New York.
1664
1667
1616
1641
8. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.
1616
1601
1641
1664
9. Lynching of Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis de Witt in the Hague
1645
1664
1700
1672
10. Elizabeth I of England dies and is succeeded by her cousin King James VI of Scotland - uniting the crowns of Scotland and England.
1664
1620
1618
1603
11. Tokugawa Ieyasu seizes control of Japan and establishes the Tokugawa Shogunate - beginning the Edo period that lasts until 1869.
1603
1694
1637
1618
12. As chief minister - Cardinal Richelieu centralises power in France.
1618
1625
1624
1652
13. Rampjaar in the Netherlands
1640
1645
1624
1672
14. The Treaty of Westminster ends the war between England and the Republic of the United Provinces.
1633
1630
1620
1674
15. Jamestown - Virginia - is settled as what would become the first permanent English colony in North America.
1639
1607
1672
1696
16. Captain Willem Janszoon and his crew aboard the Dutch EastIndia Company ship Duyfken becomes the first recorded Europeans to sight and make landfall in Australia.
1609
1601
1640
1606
17. The Mughal Empire nearly bans the EastIndia Company in response to pirate Henry Every's capture of the Ganj-i-Sawai
1641
1695
1660
1681
18. Mehmed K
1660
1688
1654
1682
19. The Great Turkish War halts the Ottoman Empire's expansion into Europe.
1623
1667
1663
1633
20. The Peace of Westphalia ends the Thirty Years' War and the Eighty Years' War and marks the ends of Spain and the Holy Roman Empire as major European powers.
1678
1603
1648
1637
21. Capture of Ormuz; The island of Hormuz was captured by an Anglo-Persian force from Portuguese.
1622
1610
1662
1689
22. The Ottomans capture Crete.
1624
1669
1664
1683
23. A Habsburg council of war is held in Vienna.
1682
1683
1682
1664
24. Emperor Fasilides expels the Catholic Patriarch Afonso Mendes and several Jesuit missionaries from Ethiopia.
1639
1674
1634
1640
25. Flight of the Earls (the fleeing of most of the native Gaelic aristocracy) occurs from County Donegal in the west of Ulster in Ireland.
1607
1688
1618
1663
26. The Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas - the oldest existing university in Asia - established by the Dominican Order in Manila
1607
1611
1689
1627
27. After modernizing his army - Abbas I expands the Persian Empire by capturing territory from the Ottomans and the Portuguese.
1692
1603
1610
1689
28. Koxinga captures Taiwan from the Dutch and founds the Kingdom of Tungning which rules until 1683.
1631
1618
1662
1648
29. The Ottomans capture Crete from the Venetians after the Siege of Candia.
1633
1683
1648
1620
30. The Battle of Killiecrankie is fought between Jacobite and Williamite forces in Highland Perthshire
1627
1664
1613
1689
31. A Habsburg council of war is held in Vienna.
1601
1685
1683
1616
32. Portugal defeats the Kongo Empire at the Battle of Mbwila.
1633
1603
1665
1661
33. Battle of L
1640
1606
1632
1630
34. The Battle of Vienna finishes the Ottoman Empire's hegemony in south-eastern Europe.
1663
1603
1683
1620
35. The Time of Troubles in Russia ends with the establishment of the House of Romanov which rules until 1917.
1692
1613
1618
1645
36. Cardinal Richelieu lays siege to Protestant La Rochelle which eventually capitulates.
1626
1622
1627
1676
37. Mehmed K
1669
1661
1631
1606
38. The 1700 Cascadia earthquake (magnitude 9) occurs off the coast of the Pacific Northwest; Japan is struck by a tsunami.
1658
1700
1662
1672
39. Cape Town founded by the Dutch EastIndia Company in South Africa.
1642
1622
1609
1652
40. 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
1692
1601
1651
1674
41. The Siege of Derry.
1642
1688
1699
1647
42. Ottoman campaign to help the Ukrainian Cossacks. John Sobieski defeats the Ottomans at the second battle of Khotyn (1673).
1603
1672
1666
1664
43. The Grand Alliance sought to stop French expansion during the Nine Years War.
1640
1694
1688
1616
44. Russia and the Ottoman Empire commence the Russo-Turkish Wars.
1603
1682
1676
1664
45. The Tokugawa Shogunate institutes Sakoku- foreigners are expelled and no one is allowed to enter or leave Japan.
1641
1662
1694
1632
46. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th
1613
1681
1654
1664
47. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France
1678
1601
1633
1666
48. Lynching of Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis de Witt in the Hague
1676
1672
1631
1601
49. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.
1647
1664
1688
1674
50. The Commonwealth of England ends and the monarchy is brought back during the English Restoration.
1606
1689
1660
1603