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17th Century Timeline
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1. Giovanni Battista Pamphili is elected PopeInnocent X at the Papal conclave of 1644.
1644
1629
1609
1613
2. Rampjaar in the Netherlands
1625
1672
1663
1662
3. Pedro de Peralta - governor of New Mexico - establishes the settlement of Santa Fe.
1694
1610
1606
1654
4. Battle of N
1622
1605
1634
1641
5. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.
1648
1647
1644
1682
6. Dutch EastIndia Company founded. Its success contributes to the Dutch Golden Age.
1602
1672
1674
1610
7. Seven-year-old Mehmed IV becomes sultan.
1616
1692
1633
1647
8. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.
1609
1690
1688
1634
9. Mehmed K
1689
1620
1689
1654
10. The Battle of Chocim - Poles and Cossacks under Jan Karol Chodkiewicz defeat the Ottomans.
1627
1609
1652
1621
11. The Time of Troubles in Russia ends with the establishment of the House of Romanov which rules until 1917.
1613
1676
1633
1651
12. Time of Troubles - Vasili IV becomes Tzar of Russia.
1661
1688
1606
1683
13. The Treaty of Zurawno brings Polish-Ottoman hostilities to a halt.
1664
1651
1606
1676
14. Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge founded.
1676
1632
1660
1678
15. 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.
1694
1610
1700
1606
16. Edict of Fontainebleau outlaws Protestantism in France. King Charles II dies
1689
1685
1658
1606
17. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Pernambuco and founds Dutch Brazil.
1630
1700
1689
1636
18. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.
1641
1687
1645
1606
19. Bethlen Gabor allies with the Ottomans and an invasion of Moldavia takes place. The Polish suffer a disaster at Cecora on the River Prut.
1605
1613
1620
1666
20. English Civil War ends with the Parliamentarian victory at the Battle of Worcester.
1673
1692
1651
1630
21. The Deluge wars leave Polish
1683
1667
1652
1648
22. The Brownist Pilgrims arrive in the Mayflower at Cape Cod
1620
1672
1611
1660
23. Naval Battle of the Downs
1644
1639
1676
1655
24. British troops capture New Amsterdam and rename it New York.
1664
1613
1618
1676
25. Ottoman war with Venice. The Ottomans invade Crete and capture Canea.
1699
1606
1618
1645
26. Lynching of Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis de Witt in the Hague
1642
1672
1618
1639
27. Thomas Savery demonstrates his first steam engine to the Royal Society.
1660
1688
1672
1699
28. Edict of Fontainebleau outlaws Protestantism in France. King Charles II dies
1605
1639
1685
1601
29. 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.
1648
1689
1636
1700
30. The Second Anglo-Dutch War fought between England and the United Provinces.
1624
1665
1648
1606
31. The Northern Wars cement Sweden's rise as a Great Power.
1655
1672
1688
1647
32. The Bank of England is established.
1699
1616
1694
1699
33. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.
1685
1682
1611
1681
34. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.
1670
1616
1627
1624
35. King Charles was compelled to summon Parliament due to the revolt of the Scots.
1642
1616
1623
1640
36. Jamestown - Virginia - is settled as what would become the first permanent English colony in North America.
1624
1680
1607
1603
37. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.
1609
1700
1674
1633
38. Lynching of Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis de Witt in the Hague
1633
1641
1616
1672
39. John Evelyn's forestry book - Sylva - is published in England.
1619
1648
1664
1618
40. The Treaty of Zurawno brings Polish-Ottoman hostilities to a halt.
1644
1625
1689
1676
41. Seven-year-old Mehmed IV becomes sultan.
1647
1620
1683
1641
42. Emperor Fasilides expels the Catholic Patriarch Afonso Mendes and several Jesuit missionaries from Ethiopia.
1616
1621
1634
1609
43. Cardinal Richelieu allies with Swedish Protestant forces in the Thirty Years' War to counter Ferdinand II's expansion.
1647
1658
1601
1629
44. William ascends to the throne over England - Scotland - and Ireland.
1605
1687
1689
1601
45. The Glorious Revolution starts with the Dutch Republic invading England - England becomes a constitutional monarchy.
1620
1688
1624
1627
46. Time of Troubles - Vasili IV becomes Tzar of Russia.
1606
1603
1620
1609
47. The Grand Alliance sought to stop French expansion during the Nine Years War.
1692
1688
1606
1683
48. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.
1676
1618
1667
1624
49. Koxinga captures Taiwan from the Dutch and founds the Kingdom of Tungning which rules until 1683.
1648
1665
1662
1608
50. China conquers the Kingdom of Tungning and annexes Taiwan.
1654
1683
1634
1636