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17th Century Timeline
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1. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th
1639
1681
1622
1672
2. Torture is outlawed in England.
1648
1640
1658
1645
3. Treaty of Vienna ends anti-Habsburg uprising in Royal Hungary.
1609
1606
1632
1613
4. The Netherlands and Spain agree to a Twelve Years' Truce in the Eighty Years' War.
1609
1682
1665
1700
5. Portugal defeats the Kongo Empire at the Battle of Mbwila.
1660
1665
1641
1623
6. The Battle of Chocim - Poles and Cossacks under Jan Karol Chodkiewicz defeat the Ottomans.
1662
1695
1639
1621
7. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.
1689
1624
1636
1613
8. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.
1690
1619
1688
1682
9. Famine in Finland wipes out almost a third of the population.
1648
1689
1620
1696
10. Russia supplants Sweden as the dominant Baltic power after the Great Northern War.
1647
1663
1700
1623
11. William ascends to the throne over England - Scotland - and Ireland.
1689
1633
1654
1663
12. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.
1647
1652
1662
1603
13. The last remaining Moriscos (Moors who had nominally converted to Christianity) in Spain are expelled.
1627
1692
1616
1606
14. Battle of Kinsale - one of the most important battles in Irish history - fought.
1637
1664
1601
1665
15. The Commonwealth of England ends and the monarchy is brought back during the English Restoration.
1689
1624
1632
1660
16. The Battle of Vienna finishes the Ottoman Empire's hegemony in south-eastern Europe.
1642
1645
1608
1683
17. Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge founded.
1660
1605
1685
1663
18. Portugal defeats the Kongo Empire at the Battle of Mbwila.
1622
1665
1644
1619
19. The Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth army defeats combined Russian- Swedish forces at the Battle of Klushino and conquers Moscow.
1610
1688
1648
1647
20. Seven-year-old Mehmed IV becomes sultan.
1666
1647
1625
1632
21. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.
1665
1601
1649
1666
22. The Hudson's Bay Company is founded in Canada.
1648
1674
1655
1670
23. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.
1676
1629
1660
1662
24. Cardinal Richelieu allies with Swedish Protestant forces in the Thirty Years' War to counter Ferdinand II's expansion.
1627
1629
1688
1640
25. Polish
1692
1613
1655
1647
26. Siamese revolution of 1688 ousted French influence and virtually severed all ties with the West until the 19th century.
1688
1626
1663
1620
27. The Brownist Pilgrims arrive in the Mayflower at Cape Cod
1620
1658
1689
1648
28. 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.'
1639
1699
1697
1673
29. Cape Town founded by the Dutch EastIndia Company in South Africa.
1637
1613
1652
1666
30. John Evelyn's forestry book - Sylva - is published in England.
1689
1664
1622
1601
31. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France
1655
1662
1678
1633
32. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.
1609
1642
1605
1639
33. Russia and the Ottoman Empire commence the Russo-Turkish Wars.
1676
1688
1689
1699
34. The Bohemian Revolt precipitates the Thirty Years' War which devastates Europe in the years 1618
1622
1618
1640
1694
35. Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge founded.
1682
1630
1642
1660
36. 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
1664
1607
1683
1689
37. Mehmed K
1665
1690
1661
1662
38. Quebec City founded by Samuel de Champlain in New France (present-day Canada).
1629
1611
1608
1665
39. Naval Battle of the Downs
1666
1639
1682
1629
40. The last remaining Moriscos (Moors who had nominally converted to Christianity) in Spain are expelled.
1629
1616
1633
1694
41. Lithuanian Civil War
1673
1618
1682
1700
42. The Great Fire of London.
1606
1620
1666
1606
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
1663
1676
1670
44. The Pueblo Revolt drives the Spanish out of New Mexico until 1692.
1641
1682
1680
1699
45. The Manchus start invading China. Their conquest eventually topples the Ming Dynasty.
1618
1682
1633
1636
46. The Defenestration of Prague
1663
1672
1700
1618
47. The death of Miyamoto Musashi - legendary Japanese Samurai warrior - of natural causes.
1645
1688
1678
1605
48. Franco-Dutch War.
1603
1672
1616
1626
49. Thomas Savery demonstrates his first steam engine to the Royal Society.
1697
1699
1644
1647
50. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.
1619
1611
1629
1648