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17th Century Timeline
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1. A Habsburg council of war is held in Vienna.
1697
1683
1664
1629
2. The Portuguese Restoration War led to the end of the Iberian Union.
1610
1640
1683
1700
3. The Great Plague of Seville.
1606
1662
1647
1620
4. Cardinal Richelieu lays siege to Protestant La Rochelle which eventually capitulates.
1627
1676
1662
1670
5. Lynching of Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis de Witt in the Hague
1636
1607
1672
1609
6. William ascends to the throne over England - Scotland - and Ireland.
1690
1609
1689
1665
7. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.
1602
1660
1688
1676
8. Rampjaar in the Netherlands
1672
1685
1693
1663
9. Jamestown massacre - Algonquian natives kill 347 English settlers outside Jamestown - Virginia (1/3 of the colony's population) and burn the Henricus settlement.
1666
1622
1624
1688
10. The reign of the Kangxi Emperor of China begins.
1668
1661
1683
1605
11. The Treaty of Westminster ends the war between England and the Republic of the United Provinces.
1696
1620
1682
1674
12. Franco-Dutch War.
1672
1692
1606
1618
13. Louis XIV accepts the Spanish crown on behalf of his grandson Philip of Anjou - triggering the War of the Spanish Succession
1632
1642
1647
1700
14. Louis XIV accepts the Spanish crown on behalf of his grandson Philip of Anjou - triggering the War of the Spanish Succession
1697
1699
1700
1672
15. The Ottomans capture Crete.
1606
1648
1622
1669
16. The Deluge wars leave Polish
1648
1682
1678
1663
17. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.
1605
1692
1609
1644
18. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India
1667
1632
1666
1642
19. Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge founded.
1630
1660
1629
1629
20. Edict of Fontainebleau outlaws Protestantism in France. King Charles II dies
1618
1685
1648
1687
21. The Long War between the Ottoman Empire and Austria is ended with the Peace of Zsitvatorok - Austria abandons Transylvania.
1641
1626
1601
1606
22. The Tokugawa Shogunate institutes Sakoku- foreigners are expelled and no one is allowed to enter or leave Japan.
1645
1694
1641
1688
23. The College of William and Mary is founded in Williamsburg - Virginia by a royal charter.
1658
1693
1674
1678
24. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.
1606
1649
1690
1694
25. Torture is outlawed in England.
1682
1640
1629
1620
26. Peace Treaty of Lisbon between Spain and Portugal recognizes Portugal as independent country.
1689
1668
1682
1603
27. Jamestown - Virginia - is settled as what would become the first permanent English colony in North America.
1683
1641
1607
1603
28. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.
1644
1672
1620
1682
29. Peace Treaty of Lisbon between Spain and Portugal recognizes Portugal as independent country.
1648
1668
1606
1632
30. Portugal defeats the Kongo Empire at the Battle of Mbwila.
1623
1694
1603
1665
31. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.
1639
1636
1644
1611
32. 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.'
1688
1673
1697
1632
33. 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
1648
1636
1667
34. Emperor Ferdinand II defeats the Bohemian rebels in the Battle of White Mountain.
1620
1689
1616
1661
35. Portugal defeats the Kongo Empire at the Battle of Mbwila.
1665
1601
1602
1700
36. 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
1603
1624
1601
1658
37. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.
1682
1683
1627
1616
38. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.
1669
1662
1629
1682
39. The Irish Rebellion.
1641
1663
1683
1603
40. Dutch EastIndia Company founded. Its success contributes to the Dutch Golden Age.
1602
1616
1648
1641
41. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.
1606
1627
1672
1696
42. After modernizing his army - Abbas I expands the Persian Empire by capturing territory from the Ottomans and the Portuguese.
1694
1644
1665
1603
43. The earliest known first-class cricket match took place in Sussex.
1645
1697
1607
1609
44. The Mughal Empire nearly bans the EastIndia Company in response to pirate Henry Every's capture of the Ganj-i-Sawai
1661
1692
1695
1676
45. Elizabeth I of England dies and is succeeded by her cousin King James VI of Scotland - uniting the crowns of Scotland and England.
1603
1700
1647
1644
46. Fronde civil war in France.
1674
1694
1688
1648
47. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France
1695
1699
1678
1660
48. 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
1695
1688
1689
1613
49. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu
1608
1697
1662
1616
50. John Locke publishes his first 'Letter Concerning Toleration'.
1639
1700
1689
1634