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Great Events from History: The 17th Century Table of Contents 17th century 17th c., Advances in Medicine 17th c., Agricultural Revolution 17th c., Book Illustration in the Ming Dynasty 17th c., Decline of Benin 17th c., Decline of Ethiopia's Solomonid Dynasty 17th c., Dissolution of Songhai 17th c., Emergence of Baroque Art 17th c., Emergence of Early Baroque Music 17th c., Emergence of Guinea Coast States 17th c., Emergence of Luba Governance 17th c., Expansion of Oyo 17th c., First Modern Libraries in Europe 17th c., First Smallpox Inoculations 17th c., The Practice of Birth Control 17th c., Rise of Asante 17th c., Rise of Proto-Industrial Economies 17th c., Rise of Rwanda 17th c., Rise of the Gunpowder Empires 17th c., Slavery in Europe 17th c., Spanish Golden Age 17th c., Sulawesi Traders Make Contact with Australian Aborigines 1601-1609 1601, Dutch Defeat the Portuguese in Bantam Harbor 1601, Elizabethan Poor Law 1601, Essex Rebellion 1601-1604, Siege of Ostend 1601-1613, Shakespeare Produces His Later Plays 1601-1644, Decline of the Ming Dynasty 1602, Dutch East India Company Is Founded 1602-1610, Japan Admits Western Traders 1602-1639, Ottoman-Safavid Wars 1602-1700, Dutch Dominate Southeast Asian Trade 1603, James I Becomes King of England and Scotland 1603, Tokugawa Shogunate Begins 1603-1606, Appearance of the False Dmitry 1603-1617, Reign of Ahmed I 1603-1629, First Kabuki Dance Drama 1603-1635, Champlain's Voyages 1604, First Major North American Settlement Is Founded on Ste-Croix 1604-1680, Rise of Criollo Identity 1605, Cervantes Publishes Don Quixote 1605, Egyptians Rebel Against Ottomans 1605, Gunpowder Plot 1605-1627, Accession of Jahāngīr 1606, Treaty of Zitvator 1606ff., Revenge Tragedies Become Popular in England 1606-1630's, First European Contact with Australia 1607, English Settle Jamestown 1607, Performance of the First Opera 1607, Velasco Drains Lake Texcoco 1608, First Korean Novel 1608, Invention of the Telescope 1608, Jesuits Found Paraguay 1608, Netherlands Introduces the Use of Checks 1608-1609, Great Jelali Revolts 1609, China Begins Shipping Tea to Europe 1609-1616, Construction of the Blue Mosque 1609-1619, Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion 1609-1674, First European Colonies in India 1610-1619 1610, Galileo Confirms Heliocentric Model of the Solar System 1610, Hudson Explores Hudson Bay 1610ff., Emergence of the Merina Kingdom 1610-1643, Reign of Louis XIII 1611, Publication of the King James Bible 1612, Introduction of Tobacco Crops into North America 1612, Sanctorius Invents the Clinical Thermometer 1612-1624, Japanese Ban Christian Missionaries 1613, Election of Michael Romanov as Czar 1613, Globe Theatre Burns Down 1614, Poma Pleas for Inca Reforms 1614-1615, Siege of Osaka Castle 1615, Jesuits Arrive in Quebec 1615, Promulgation of the Buke shohatto and Kincyu narabini kuge Shohatto 1615ff., Pepper Trade 1616-1643, Rise of the Manchus 1617, Establishment of Edo's "Floating World" District 1617ff., Smallpox Kills Native American Populations 1618, Building of Samarqand's Shirdar Madrasa 1618, Defenestration of Prague 1618ff., Rise of the Arma in Timbuktu 1618-1625, Thirty Years' War 1619, Africans Arrive in Virginia 1619, First General Assembly of Virginia 1619ff., The Middle Passage 1619-1622, Inigo Jones Builds the Banqueting House at Whitehall 1620-1629 1620, Battle of the White Mountain 1620, Francis Bacon Publishes Novum Organum 1620, Pilgrims Land at Plymouth 1620-1639, Struggle for the Valtelline Pass 1621, Gorée Island Becomes Major Slave Export Center 1621, The Great Protestation 1621, Reign of Philip IV 1622-1623, Janissary Revolt and Assassination of Osman II 1622-1646, Powhatan Wars 1623ff., Neo-Confucianism Flourishes in Japan 1623-1640, Reign of Murad IV 1623-1671, Earliest Calculators Appear 1624-1640's, Japan's Seclusion Policy 1625, Grotius Publishes On the Law of War and Peace 1625, Formation of the Kuba Kingdom 1625-1640, English Colonize Barbados 1625-1628, Revolt of the Huguenots 1625-1664, Founding of New Amsterdam 1626, Algonquians Sell Manhattan Island 1626-1673, Civil War Ravages Vietnam 1627, Company of New France Is Chartered 1628, Petition of Right 1628, Shah Jahan Builds the Taj Majal 1628ff., Harvey Describes the Circulation of Blood 1628-1644, Li Zicheng's Revolt 1628-1668, Korean Contact with the West 1629, Edict of Restitution 1629, Safavids Flourish Under Abbas I 1629-1634, Destruction and Revival of Mexico City 1629-1640, Bandeirantes Expel the Jesuits 1629-1640, Charles I Dissolves Parliament 1630-1639 1630, Day of Dupes 1630-1643, Great Puritan Migration 1630-1660's, Dutch Wars in Brazil 1631, Women First Appear on the English Stage 1632, Galileo Publishes Dialogue on the Two Chief Systems of the World 1632, Zuńi Rebellion 1632-1665, Settlement of Connecticut 1632-1667, Polish-Russian Wars for the Ukraine 1633, Great Fire of Istanbul 1634ff., Age of Mercantilism in Southeast Asia 1635, Peace of Prague 1636, Rhode Island Is Founded 1636-1637, Pequot War 1637, Descartes Publishes His Discourse on Method 1637-1638, Shimabara Revolt 1637-1648, Dutch-Portuguese Struggle for the Guinea Coast 1638, End of the Devshirme System 1638-1639, Urga Becomes the Seat of the Living Buddha 1639, English Found of Fort St. George at Madras 1639, First Bishops' War 1639, First Printing Press in North America 1640-1649 1640, First Outdoor Cafés 1640, Revolt of the Catalans 1640-1641, Long Parliament 1640-1688, Reign of Frederick William, the Great Elector 1640-1700, Westward Migration of Native Americans 1640-1710, Indentured Servants Settle in American Colonies 1641, Dutch Take Malacca 1641, Massachusetts Recognizes Slavery 1641-1642, Protestant Settlers Are Killed in Ulster Insurrection 1641-1648, Conquest of Luanda 1642, Founding of Montreal 1642, Solemn League and Covenant 1642-1644, Tasman Circumnavigates Australia 1642-1649, English Civil War 1642-1660, Closing of the Theaters 1642-1666, Reign of Abbas II 1642-1685, Beaver Wars 1643, Confederation of the United Colonies of New England 1643, Torricelli Invents the Mercury Barometer 1644, Battle of Marston Moor 1644, Rise of Buganda 1644-1660's, Manchus Take Beijing 1644-1680's, Ndongo Wars 1645, Russians Reach the Pacific Ocean 1645-1683, Koxinga Pirates Raid Chinese Coast 1646-1649, Levellers Launch an Egalitarian Movement 1648, Cult of the Virgin of Guadalupe 1648, Destruction of Bavaria 1648, Peace of Westphalia 1648-1649, Establishment of the Commonwealth in England 1648-1657, Venetian Blockade 1648-1660, Beginning of the Fronde 1649, Codification of Russian Serfdom 1649, Maryland Act of Toleration 1650-1659 1650, An Earthquake Destroys Cuzco 1650, Harvard College Is Established 1650's, First Microscopic Observations 1651, Thomas Hobbes Publishes Leviathan 1651-1652, Edo Rebellions 1651-1652, Navigation Act and First Anglo-Dutch War 1651-1680, Reign of Ietsuna as Shogun 1652, Dutch Colonize Southern Africa 1652-1667, Patriarch Nikon's Reforms 1652-1689, George Fox Organizes the Quakers 1653-1660, Cromwell Becomes Lord Protector 1654, First Jewish Settlers in North America 1654, Portugal Takes Control of Brazil 1654, Pascal and Fermat Devise the Theory of Probability 1655, Cassini Discovers the Great Red Spot 1655, English Capture Jamaica 1655, Penruddock's Uprising 1655-1661, First Northern War 1656, Huygens Identifies Saturn's Rings 1656, Popularization of Chocolate 1656-1662, Persecution of Iranian Jews 1656-1667, Construction of the Piazza San Pietro 1656-1676, Köprülü Reforms 1657, Meireki Fire Ravages Edo 1657, Work Begins on Japan's National History 1658, First Newspaper Ads Appear 1658-1659, Explorations of Radisson and Groseilliers 1658-1707, Reign of Aurangzeb 1659, Treaty of the Pyrenees 1659ff., Expansion of the Alawids 1659-1660, Restoration of Charles II 1660-1669 1660, Nasir al-Din Calls for Jihad in Senegambia 1660, Puritan New Model Army 1660's, Dutch Painting Flourishes 1660's, Rise of Scientific Societies 1660-1663, British Navigation Acts 1661, Absolute Monarchy Emerges in France 1661, Bombay Ceded to the English 1661, Clarendon Code 1661-1705, Virginia Slave Codes 1661-1722, Kangxi's Reign: Height of Qing Dynasty 1662, England's Act of Uniformity 1662, Half-Way Covenant 1662, Public Transportation Begins 1662ff., Boyle's Law and the Birth of Modern Chemistry 1662-1672, Mercantilism Emerges in France 1662-1695, England's Licensing Acts 1663ff., Settlement of the Carolinas 1664, Completion of the Louvre 1664, Iran's Coffee Culture 1664, Moličre Produces Tartuffe in Paris 1664, Trappist Order Is Founded 1664, Willis Identifies the Basal Ganglia 1664-1667, British Conquest of New Netherland 1665, Great Plague in London 1665, Grimaldi Discovers Diffraction 1665-1666, Shabbetai Tzevi's Messianic Movement 1665-1667, Second Anglo-Dutch War 1666, Great Fire of London 1666-1676, Founding of the Maratha Kingdom 1667, Impeachment of Clarendon 1667, Milton Publishes Paradise Lost 1667, Pufendorf Advocates a Unified Germany 1667, Stradivari Makes His First Violin 1667-1668, War of Devolution 1667-1671, Stenka Razin Leads Peasant Uprising in Russia 1668, Spain Recognizes Portugal's Independence 1668, Triple Alliance Forms 1669, Don Juan's Revolt 1669, Spread of Jansenism 1669, Steno Studies Marine Fossils 1669-1684, Development of the Calculus 1670-1679 1670, Founding of Charles Town 1670, Hudson's Bay Company Is Chartered 1670, Popularization of the Grand Tour 1670, Promulgation of the Sacred Edict 1671-1730, Indian Slave Trade 1672, Newton Builds the Reflecting Telescope 1672-1676, Ottoman-Polish Wars 1672-1691, Self-Immolation of the Old Believers 1673, Buxtehude Begins His Abendmusiken Concerts 1673, Huygens Explains the Pendulum 1673, Test Act 1673ff., French Explore the Mississippi Valley 1673-1681, Rebellion of the Three Feudatories 1674, Leeuwenhoek Discovers Bacteria 1674, French-Dutch War 1675, Metacomet's War 1675, Wren Rebuilds Saint Paul's Cathedral 1676, Bacon's Rebellion 1676, Römer Calculates the Speed of Light 1676, Sydenham Promotes Clinical Observation 1677-1681, Ottoman-Russian War 1678, Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress Appears 1678-1679, Popish Plot 1678-1679, Treaties of Nijmegen 1679, Dueling Is Outlawed in France 1679, Habeas Corpus Act 1679ff., Rajput Rebellion 1679-1689, La Salle's Expeditions 1680-1689 1680, Extinction of the Dodo Bird 1680, Last Executions Under the Inquisition 1680, Pueblo Revolt 1680-1709, Tsunayoshi Shogunate 1681, Completion of the Lanquedoc Canal 1681, Founding of Pennsylvania 1682, French Court Moves to Versailles 1683, Rye House Plot 1683, Defeat of ther Ottomans at Vienna 1683-1699, Ottoman War with the Holy League 1683-1713, Guerra dos Bárbaros 1685, Louis XIV Revokes the Edict of Nantes 1686, Halley Draws the First Weather Map 1686-1689, Dominion of New England Forms 1687, Declaration of Liberty of Conscience 1687, Newton's Theory of Universal Gravitation 1687-1695, Decline of the Ottomans 1688-1689, Glorious Revolution 1688-1694, Famine and Inflation in France 1688-1696, Treaty of Nerchinsk Draws Russian-Chinese Border 1688-1702, Reign of William and Mary 1688-1704, Genroku Era 1689, Declaration of Rights 1689, Siege of Londonderry 1689, Toleration Act 1689ff., Reforms of Peter the Great 1689-1697, War of the League of Augsburg 1690-1700 1690, Locke Publishes Two Treatises of Government 1691, Civility Movement 1692, Corn Riots in Mexico City 1692-1693, Salem Witchcraft Trials 1693, Brazilian Gold Rush 1693, John Ray Proves That Animals Are Conscious 1694, Bank of England Is Chartered 1694-1695, Zumbi's Resistance 1695, End of Press Censorship in England 1695-1703, Reforms of Vezier Amjazade Huseyin Pasha 1697, Perrault Publishes Mother Goose Tales 1697, Treaty of Ryswick 1697-1698, Peter the Great's Secret Tour of Europe 1698, Savery Patents the First Successful Steam Engine 1698/1700, First and Second Treaties of Partition 1699, British Establish Trading Post in Canton 1699, Gobind Singh founds the Khalsa Brotherhood 1699, Treaty of Karlowitz 1699-1702, French Establish the Louisiana Colony 1700, Battle of Narva |
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