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17th Century Timeline
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1. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.
1606
1616
1665
1630
2. China conquers the Kingdom of Tungning and annexes Taiwan.
1648
1683
1682
1682
3. 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
1683
1642
1651
4. The War of Devolution; France invades the Netherlands. The Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle (1668) brings this to a halt.
1641
1682
1667
1674
5. The Great Plague of Seville.
1647
1648
1674
1605
6. The reign of the Kangxi Emperor of China begins.
1665
1661
1640
1676
7. Polish-Ottoman War.
1692
1680
1672
1609
8. Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge founded.
1616
1666
1660
1640
9. 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.
1603
1664
1606
1601
10. Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before theInquisition.
1645
1622
1633
1651
11. Jamestown massacre - Algonquian natives kill 347 English settlers outside Jamestown - Virginia (1/3 of the colony's population) and burn the Henricus settlement.
1622
1672
1665
1633
12. Treaty of Vienna ends anti-Habsburg uprising in Royal Hungary.
1654
1606
1610
1626
13. The Battle of Killiecrankie is fought between Jacobite and Williamite forces in Highland Perthshire
1682
1688
1689
1605
14. The Pueblo Revolt drives the Spanish out of New Mexico until 1692.
1688
1655
1680
1603
15. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.
1672
1606
1613
1667
16. English Civil War ends with the Parliamentarian victory at the Battle of Worcester.
1631
1652
1651
1664
17. Rampjaar in the Netherlands
1611
1682
1700
1672
18. Polish
1613
1673
1636
1630
19. Bethlen Gabor - Prince of Transylvania joins Protestant Rebels.
1674
1621
1618
1645
20. Pedro de Peralta - governor of New Mexico - establishes the settlement of Santa Fe.
1620
1642
1682
1610
21. The Raid on the Medway during the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
1673
1603
1667
1665
22. The Battle of St. Gotthard - Count Raimondo Montecuccoli defeats the Ottomans. The Peace of Vasvar
1669
1681
1672
1664
23. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.
1636
1676
1642
1664
24. The Russian famine of 1601
1621
1640
1689
1601
25. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.
1665
1652
1681
1637
26. Pedro de Peralta - governor of New Mexico - establishes the settlement of Santa Fe.
1689
1664
1634
1610
27. Mehmed K
1631
1676
1642
1654
28. France takes full political and military control over its colonial possessions in New France.
1618
1663
1700
1629
29. Edict of Fontainebleau outlaws Protestantism in France. King Charles II dies
1685
1640
1695
1683
30. Wars of the Three Kingdoms - civil wars throughout Scotland - Ireland - and England.
1629
1639
1608
1601
31. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Bahia in Brazil.
1689
1674
1662
1624
32. The Manchu conquer China ending the Ming Dynasty. The subsequent Qing Dynasty rules until 1912.
1644
1622
1602
1670
33. Disagreements between the Farnese and Barberini Pope Urban VIII escalate into the Wars of Castro and last until 1649.
1676
1645
1624
1639
34. The last remaining Moriscos (Moors who had nominally converted to Christianity) in Spain are expelled.
1640
1616
1633
1700
35. Time of Troubles - Vasili IV becomes Tzar of Russia.
1622
1606
1694
1648
36. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
1664
1606
1637
1687
37. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.
1648
1672
1605
1663
38. The Bohemian Revolt precipitates the Thirty Years' War which devastates Europe in the years 1618
1651
1652
1648
1618
39. The fortresses of Veszpr
1688
1672
1605
1648
40. The Great Plague of Seville.
1644
1602
1647
1693
41. Wars of the Three Kingdoms - civil wars throughout Scotland - Ireland - and England.
1676
1639
1606
1642
42. Famine in France kills 2 million.
1605
1692
1672
1700
43. Jamestown massacre - Algonquian natives kill 347 English settlers outside Jamestown - Virginia (1/3 of the colony's population) and burn the Henricus settlement.
1689
1603
1606
1622
44. Ottoman campaign to help the Ukrainian Cossacks. John Sobieski defeats the Ottomans at the second battle of Khotyn (1673).
1640
1670
1624
1672
45. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.
1636
1634
1609
1672
46. King Charles was compelled to summon Parliament due to the revolt of the Scots.
1694
1682
1640
1627
47. The Treaty of Nerchinsk established a border between Russia and China.
1664
1689
1630
1607
48. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.
1672
1670
1682
1651
49. Bethlen Gabor allies with the Ottomans and an invasion of Moldavia takes place. The Polish suffer a disaster at Cecora on the River Prut.
1700
1620
1633
1601
50. Treaty of Vienna ends anti-Habsburg uprising in Royal Hungary.
1618
1606
1665
1648
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