17th Century Timeline

1601: The Essex Coup fails

1601: Battle of Kinsale

1601-03: Great Russian Famine

1602: The Dutch East India Company forms

1603: Elizabeth I dies/James I becomes King of England

1603: Tokugawa Shogunate

1605: The Gunpowder Plot

1606: The Long War Ends

1607: Jamestown founded

1607: The Flight of the Earls

1613: House of Romanov assumes power in Russia

1618-48: 30 Years War

1622: Jamestown Massacre

1631: Battle of Magdeburg

1631: Battle of Breitenfeld

1632: Battle of Lutzen

1633: Galileo tried by the Inquisition

1636: Harvard founded

1637: Shimbora Rebellion

1639-40: Prayer Book Riots and Bishop's War

1641: Sokaku instituted in Japan

1641: Descartes Meditations on First Philosophy

1642-51: English Civil War

1643: Battle of Rocroy

1644: Manchu Dynasty founded

1644: Battle of Marston Moor

1645: Battle of Naseby

1648: Treaty of Westphalia

1649: Charles I beheaded

1649-53: Cromwell in Ireland

1660: The Restoration

1665: Great Plague in London

1666: Great Fire of London

1667-99: Great Turkish War

1680: Pueblo Revolt

1682: Peter the Great becomes Czar (r. 1682-1725)

1683: Battle of Vienna

1687: Newton's Philosphise Naturalis Principia Mathematica

1688-89: The Glorious Revolution

1689: John Locke's "Letter Concerning Toleration"

1690: Battle of the Boyne

1692: Salem Witch Trials

1692-94: French famine

1696-97: Finnish famine