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17th Century Timeline
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1. The Brownist Pilgrims arrive in the Mayflower at Cape Cod
1640
1620
1601
1616
2. The Defenestration of Prague
1672
1690
1665
1618
3. The Treaty of Westminster ends the war between England and the Republic of the United Provinces.
1620
1637
1645
1674
4. As chief minister - Cardinal Richelieu centralises power in France.
1620
1624
1606
1649
5. Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge founded.
1660
1618
1613
1688
6. Treaty of Vienna ends anti-Habsburg uprising in Royal Hungary.
1606
1619
1680
1660
7. Mehmed K
1644
1700
1645
1654
8. Cardinal Richelieu allies with Swedish Protestant forces in the Thirty Years' War to counter Ferdinand II's expansion.
1629
1616
1625
1670
9. St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican completed.
1682
1626
1640
1664
10. Bethlen Gabor allies with the Ottomans and an invasion of Moldavia takes place. The Polish suffer a disaster at Cecora on the River Prut.
1672
1620
1682
1642
11. Rampjaar in the Netherlands
1672
1632
1618
1624
12. The Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas - the oldest existing university in Asia - established by the Dominican Order in Manila
1619
1667
1611
1618
13. A Habsburg council of war is held in Vienna.
1683
1694
1700
1639
14. The Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas - the oldest existing university in Asia - established by the Dominican Order in Manila
1606
1642
1685
1611
15. Lithuanian Civil War
1622
1683
1700
1639
16. The Bohemian Revolt precipitates the Thirty Years' War which devastates Europe in the years 1618
1607
1670
1618
1629
17. After modernizing his army - Abbas I expands the Persian Empire by capturing territory from the Ottomans and the Portuguese.
1648
1620
1633
1603
18. John Locke publishes his first 'Letter Concerning Toleration'.
1689
1620
1663
1642
19. Cardinal Richelieu lays siege to Protestant La Rochelle which eventually capitulates.
1627
1683
1689
1606
20. Ren
1694
1622
1641
1607
21. Battle of L
1648
1645
1632
1660
22. Mehmed K
1606
1603
1654
1694
23. The Ottomans capture Crete.
1669
1601
1664
1601
24. The Great Fire of London.
1666
1683
1613
1640
25. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.
1683
1688
1632
1605
26. Battle of Kinsale - one of the most important battles in Irish history - fought.
1603
1688
1601
1672
27. Naval Battle of the Downs
1674
1639
1696
1644
28. Giovanni Battista Pamphili is elected PopeInnocent X at the Papal conclave of 1644.
1648
1629
1644
1700
29. Emperor Ferdinand II defeats the Bohemian rebels in the Battle of White Mountain.
1632
1620
1637
1693
30. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.
1632
1642
1644
1690
31. Cape Town founded by the Dutch EastIndia Company in South Africa.
1624
1652
1609
1606
32. The Battle of Chocim - Poles and Cossacks under Jan Karol Chodkiewicz defeat the Ottomans.
1692
1694
1621
1683
33. The Time of Troubles in Russia ends with the establishment of the House of Romanov which rules until 1917.
1613
1678
1622
1636
34. The Battle of Killiecrankie is fought between Jacobite and Williamite forces in Highland Perthshire
1648
1692
1689
1682
35. The Russian famine of 1601
1688
1601
1676
1648
36. Russia and the Ottoman Empire commence the Russo-Turkish Wars.
1676
1688
1654
1658
37. Russia supplants Sweden as the dominant Baltic power after the Great Northern War.
1676
1647
1700
1609
38. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.
1663
1606
1700
1610
39. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.
1648
1636
1618
1700
40. Lynching of Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis de Witt in the Hague
1672
1641
1700
1610
41. The Defenestration of Prague
1688
1618
1613
1700
42. The Grand Alliance sought to stop French expansion during the Nine Years War.
1620
1673
1700
1688
43. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.
1649
1619
1622
1682
44. The Mughal Empire nearly bans the EastIndia Company in response to pirate Henry Every's capture of the Ganj-i-Sawai
1695
1683
1618
1601
45. The Glorious Revolution starts with the Dutch Republic invading England - England becomes a constitutional monarchy.
1683
1682
1631
1688
46. The Great Plague of Seville.
1668
1616
1647
1682
47. Emperor Ferdinand II defeats the Bohemian rebels in the Battle of White Mountain.
1661
1620
1641
1607
48. John Evelyn's forestry book - Sylva - is published in England.
1664
1676
1688
1674
49. The Raid on the Medway during the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
1633
1667
1622
1647
50. The Treaty of Zurawno brings Polish-Ottoman hostilities to a halt.
1634
1652
1664
1676