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1601: Battle of Kinsale, one of the most important battles in Irish history, fought.
1601: 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 Câmpia Turzii.
1601–1603: The Russian famine of 1601–1603 kills perhaps a third of Russia.
1602: Dutch East India Company founded. Its success contributes to the Dutch Golden Age.
1603: Elizabeth I of England dies and is succeeded by her cousin King James VI of Scotland, uniting the crowns of Scotland and England.
1603: Tokugawa Ieyasu seizes control of Japan and establishes the Tokugawa Shogunate, beginning the Edo period that lasts until 1869.
1603–1623: After modernizing his army, Abbas I expands the Persian Empire by capturing territory from the Ottomans and the Portuguese.
1605: Gunpowder Plot failed in England.
1605: The fortresses of Veszprém and Visegrad are retaken by the Ottomans.
1606: The Long War between the Ottoman Empire and Austria is ended with the Peace of Zsitvatorok - Austria abandons Transylvania.
1606: Treaty of Vienna ends anti-Habsburg uprising in Royal Hungary.
1606: Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.
1606: Time of Troubles: Vasili IV becomes Tzar of Russia.
1606: Captain Willem Janszoon and his crew aboard the Dutch East India Company ship Duyfken becomes the first recorded Europeans to sight and make landfall in Australia.
1607: Jamestown, Virginia, is settled as what would become the first permanent English colony in North America.
1607: Flight of the Earls (the fleeing of most of the native Gaelic aristocracy) occurs from County Donegal in the west of Ulster in Ireland.
1608: Quebec City founded by Samuel de Champlain in New France (present-day Canada).
1609: The Netherlands and Spain agree to a Twelve Years' Truce in the Eighty Years' War.
1609: Pedro de Peralta, a later governor of New Mexico, establishes the settlement of Santa Fe.
1609: Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.
[edit] Tags:Dutch Golden Age,Shogun,Tokugawa Ieyasu,Persian,Ottoman,Edo Period,Battle Of Kinsale,Michael The Brave,Wallachia,Moldavia,Transylvania,Giorgio Basta,Câmpia Turzii,Russian Famine Of 1601–1603,Dutch East India Company,Elizabeth I Of England,James Vi Of Scotland,Tokugawa Shogunate,Abbas I,Ottomans,Portuguese,Gunpowder Plot,Veszprém,Visegrad,Long War,Ottoman Empire,Austria,Peace Of Zsitvatorok,Treaty Of Vienna,Stephen Bocskay,Time Of Troubles,Vasili Iv,Willem Janszoon,Duyfken,Jamestown, Virginia,Flight Of The Earls,Gaelic,Aristocracy,County Donegal,Ulster,Quebec City,Samuel De Champlain,New France,Spain,Twelve Years' Truce,Eighty Years' War,Governor Of New Mexico,Santa Fe,Maximilian Of Bavaria,Catholic League,Vienna,England,Control,Sylva,New Mexico,Habsburg, | |
| 1610s | |
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1610: The Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth army defeats combined Russian- Swedish forces at the Battle of Klushino and conquers Moscow.
1613: The Time of Troubles in Russia ends with the establishment of the House of Romanov which rules until 1917.
1613–1617: Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth is invaded by the Tatars dozens of times.[3]
1616: The last remaining Moriscos (Moors who had nominally converted to Christianity) in Spain are expelled.
1616: Shakespeare dies
1618: The Defenestration of Prague
1618: The Bohemian Revolt precipitates the Thirty Years' War which devastates Europe in the years 1618–48.
1618: Bethlen Gabor, Prince of Transylvania joins Protestant Rebels.
1618: The Manchus start invading China. Their conquest eventually topples the Ming Dynasty.
1619: Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.
[edit] Tags:Thirty Years' War,Polish–lithuanian Commonwealth,Ming Dynasty,Manchu,Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth,Battle Of Klushino,House Of Romanov,Tatars,Moriscos,The Defenestration Of Prague,Bethlen Gabor,Manchus,Conquest, | |
| 1620s | |
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1620: Emperor Ferdinand II defeats the Bohemian rebels in the Battle of White Mountain.
1620: The Brownist Pilgrims arrive in the Mayflower at Cape Cod
1620–1621: Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.
1620: Bethlen Gabor allies with the Ottomans and an invasion of Moldavia takes place. The Polish suffer a disaster at Cecora on the River Prut.
1621: The Battle of Chocim: Poles and Cossacks under Jan Karol Chodkiewicz defeat the Ottomans.
1622: Capture of Ormuz; The island of Hormuz was captured by an Anglo-Persian force from Portuguese.
1622: Jamestown massacre: Algonquian natives kill 347 English settlers outside Jamestown, Virginia (1/3 of the colony's population) and burn the Henricus settlement.
1623: Maffeo Barberini is elected Pope Urban VIII at the Papal conclave of 1623.
1624–1642: As chief minister, Cardinal Richelieu centralises power in France.
1625: New Amsterdam founded by the Dutch West India Company in North America.
1626: St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican completed.
1627: Cardinal Richelieu lays siege to Protestant La Rochelle which eventually capitulates.
1627: Aurochs go extinct.
1629: Abbas I, the Safavids king, died.
1629: Cardinal Richelieu allies with Swedish Protestant forces in the Thirty Years' War to counter Ferdinand II's expansion.
[edit] Tags:New Amsterdam,Amsterdam,Massacre,Emperor Ferdinand Ii,Battle Of White Mountain,Brownist,Pilgrims,Mayflower,Cape Cod,Polish-ottoman War,Cecora,Prut,Battle Of Chocim,Cossacks,Jan Karol Chodkiewicz,1622,Capture Of Ormuz,Hormuz,Jamestown Massacre,Algonquian,Henricus,Barberini,Pope Urban Viii,Papal Conclave Of 1623,Cardinal Richelieu,Dutch West India Company,St. Peter's Basilica,La Rochelle,Aurochs,Safavids,Ferdinand Ii's, | |
| 1630s | |
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1631: Mount Vesuvius erupts
1632: Battle of Lützen, death of king of Sweden Gustav II Adolf.
1632: Taj Mahal building work started in Agra, India
1633: Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition.
1633–1639: Japan transforms into "locked country".
1634: Battle of Nördlingen results in Catholic victory.
1634: Emperor Fasilides expels the Catholic Patriarch Afonso Mendes and several Jesuit missionaries from Ethiopia.
1636: Emperor Fasilides founds the city of Gondar, which becomes the capital of Ethiopia for the next two centuries.
1636: Harvard University is founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1637: Shimabara Rebellion of Japanese Christians, rōnin and peasants against Edo.
1639: Naval Battle of the Downs – Republic of the United Provinces fleet decisively defeats a Spanish fleet in English waters.
1639: Disagreements between the Farnese and Barberini Pope Urban VIII escalate into the Wars of Castro and last until 1649.
1639–1651: Wars of the Three Kingdoms, civil wars throughout Scotland, Ireland, and England.
[edit] Tags:Centuries,Spanish,Sweden,Civil War,Galileo Galilei,Mount Vesuvius,Erupts,Battle Of Lützen,Gustav Ii Adolf,Taj Mahal,Agra, India,Inquisition,Locked Country,Battle Of Nördlingen,Fasilides,Afonso Mendes,Jesuit,Gondar,Harvard University,Shimabara Rebellion,Rōnin,Battle Of The Downs,Republic Of The United Provinces,Farnese,Wars Of Castro,Wars Of The Three Kingdoms, | |
| 1640s | |
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1640: King Charles was compelled to summon Parliament due to the revolt of the Scots.
1640–1668: The Portuguese Restoration War led to the end of the Iberian Union.
1640: Torture is outlawed in England.
1641: The Tokugawa Shogunate institutes Sakoku- foreigners are expelled and no one is allowed to enter or leave Japan.
1641: The Irish Rebellion.
1641: René Descartes publishes Meditationes de prima philosophia Meditations on First Philosophy.
1642: Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman achieves the first recorded European sighting of New Zealand.
1642: Beginning of English Civil War, conflict will end in 1651 with the execution of King Charles I, abolishment of the monarchy and the establishment of the supremacy of Parliament over the king.
1644: Giovanni Battista Pamphili is elected Pope Innocent X at the Papal conclave of 1644.
1644: The Manchu conquer China ending the Ming Dynasty. The subsequent Qing Dynasty rules until 1912.
1644–1674: The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.
1645: The death of Miyamoto Musashi, legendary Japanese Samurai warrior of natural causes.
1645–1669: Ottoman war with Venice. The Ottomans invade Crete and capture Canea.
1647: Seven-year-old Mehmed IV becomes sultan.
1647–1652: The Great Plague of Seville.
1648: 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.
1648–1653: Fronde civil war in France.
1648–1667: The Deluge wars leave Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in ruins.
1648–1669: The Ottomans capture Crete from the Venetians after the Siege of Candia.
1649–1653: The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.
[edit] Tags:English Civil War,Mehmed Iv,Sakoku,Qing Dynasty,Fronde,René Descartes,Portuguese Restoration War,Iberian Union,Torture,Irish Rebellion,Meditations On First Philosophy,Abel Janszoon Tasman,King Charles I,Pamphili,Pope Innocent X,Papal Conclave Of 1644,Mauritanian Thirty-year War,Miyamoto Musashi,Venice,Crete,Canea, | |
| 1650s | |
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1651: English Civil War ends with the Parliamentarian victory at the Battle of Worcester.
1652: Cape Town founded by the Dutch East India Company in South Africa.
1652: The First Anglo-Dutch War begins.
1654–1661: Mehmed Köprülü is Grand Vizier.
1655–1661: The Northern Wars cement Sweden's rise as a Great Power.
1658: After his father Shah Jahan completes the Taj Mahal, his son Aurangzeb deposes him as ruler of the Mughal Empire.
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1660: The Commonwealth of England ends and the monarchy is brought back during the English Restoration.
1660: Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge founded.
1661: Mehmed Köprülü dies and is succeeded by his son Ahmed.
1661: The reign of the Kangxi Emperor of China begins.
1662: Koxinga captures Taiwan from the Dutch and founds the Kingdom of Tungning which rules until 1683.
1662: Jacques Aymar-Vernay, who later reintroduced Dowsing into popular use in Europe, is born.
1663: Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.
1663: France takes full political and military control over its colonial possessions in New France.
1663: Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.
1664: The Battle of St. Gotthard: count Raimondo Montecuccoli defeats the Ottomans. The Peace of Vasvar – intended to keep the peace for 20 years.
1664: British troops capture New Amsterdam and rename it New York.
1664: John Evelyn's forestry book, Sylva, is published in England.
1665: The Great Plague of London.
1665: Portugal defeats the Kongo Empire at the Battle of Mbwila.
1665–1667: The Second Anglo-Dutch War fought between England and the United Provinces.
1666: The Great Fire of London.
1667: The Raid on the Medway during the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
1667–1668: The War of Devolution; France invades the Netherlands. The Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle (1668) brings this to a halt.
1667–1699: The Great Turkish War halts the Ottoman Empire's expansion into Europe.
1668: Peace Treaty of Lisbon between Spain and Portugal recognizes Portugal as independent country.
1669: The Ottomans capture Crete.
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1670: The Hudson's Bay Company is founded in Canada.
1672–1673: Ottoman campaign to help the Ukrainian Cossacks. John Sobieski defeats the Ottomans at the second battle of Khotyn (1673).
1672–1676: Polish-Ottoman War.
1672: Rampjaar in the Netherlands – Combined attack by France, England and two German states on the Republic of the United Provinces.
1672: Lynching of Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis de Witt in the Hague – William III of Orange takes power.
1672–1678: Franco-Dutch War.
1674: The Treaty of Westminster ends the war between England and the Republic of the United Provinces.
1674: Maratha Empire founded in India by Shivaji.
1676: The Treaty of Zurawno brings Polish-Ottoman hostilities to a halt.
1676: Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.
1676–1681: Russia and the Ottoman Empire commence the Russo-Turkish Wars.
1678: The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France
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1680: The Pueblo Revolt drives the Spanish out of New Mexico until 1692.
1681: The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Thököly's rebellion in Hungary.
1682: Sultan Mehmed IV, advised by Kara Mustafa, decides to disregard the existing peace treaty with Leopold I, due to expire in 1684.
1682–1683: The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.
1682: Peter the Great becomes joint ruler of Russia (sole tsar in 1696).
1682: La Salle explores the length of the Mississippi River and claims Louisiana for France.
1683: China conquers the Kingdom of Tungning and annexes Taiwan.
1683: A Habsburg council of war is held in Vienna.
1683: The Battle of Vienna finishes the Ottoman Empire's hegemony in south-eastern Europe.
1685: Edict of Fontainebleau outlaws Protestantism in France. King Charles II dies
1687: Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
1688: The Siege of Derry.
1688: Siamese revolution of 1688 ousted French influence and virtually severed all ties with the West until the 19th century.
1688–1689: The Glorious Revolution starts with the Dutch Republic invading England, England becomes a constitutional monarchy.
1688–1691: The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.
1688–1697: The Grand Alliance sought to stop French expansion during the Nine Years War.
1689: William ascends to the throne over England, Scotland, and Ireland.
1689: John Locke publishes his first 'Letter Concerning Toleration'.
1689: The Treaty of Nerchinsk established a border between Russia and China.
1689: The Battle of Killiecrankie is fought between Jacobite and Williamite forces in Highland Perthshire
1689: 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
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1690: The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.
1692: Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.
1692–1694: Famine in France kills 2 million.[4]
1693: The College of William and Mary is founded in Williamsburg, Virginia by a royal charter.
1694: The Bank of England is established.
1694: Mary II of England dies
1695: The Mughal Empire nearly bans the East India Company in response to pirate Henry Every's capture of the Ganj-i-Sawai
1696–1697: Famine in Finland wipes out almost a third of the population.[5]
1697: The earliest known first-class cricket match took place in Sussex.
1699: The Treaty of Karlowitz ends the Great Turkish War.
1699: Thomas Savery demonstrates his first steam engine to the Royal Society.
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1700: The 1700 Cascadia earthquake (magnitude 9) occurs off the coast of the Pacific Northwest; Japan is struck by a tsunami.
1700–21: Russia supplants Sweden as the dominant Baltic power after the Great Northern War.
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| Significant people | |
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See also: English Restoration
Peter Paul Rubens, Anne of Austria, Queen of France, mother of King Louis XIV, 1622–1625
Elias Gottlieb Haussmann, Johann Sebastian Bach, 1748
Galileo Galilei is often referred to as the Father of Modern Astronomy
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, the first person to use a microscope to view bacteria
Miyamoto Musashi, Self-portrait, Samurai, writer and artist, c. 1640
Sir Isaac Newton at 46 in Godfrey Kneller's 1689 portrait
Self portrait by Rembrandt, c. 1655
Probable self-portrait of Francisco Zurbarán as Saint Luke, c. 1635–1640[6]
Portrait of René Descartes, dubbed the "Father of Modern Philosophy", after Frans Hals c. 1648
Alexis of Russia, Tsar of Russia (1629–1676)
Anne of Austria, Queen consort and regent of France (1601–1666)
Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden (1594–1632)
Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan, lover of Louis XIV (1641–1707)
Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon, second wife of Louis XIV (1635–1719)
Guru Teg Bahadur, 9th Sikh Guru (1621–1675)
Gabriel Bethlen, Hungarian prince of Transylvania (1580–1629)
Shivaji Bhonsle, Hindu king, 1st Maratha ruler, established Hindavi Swaraj (1630–1680)
Queen Christina of Sweden, high profile Catholic convert, matron of arts (1626–1689)
Charles I of England (1600–1649)
Charles II of England (1630–1685)
Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland (1599–1658)
Richard Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland (1626–1712)
Elizabeth I of England (1533–1603)
Hugh O'Neill (Aodh Mór Ó Né Tags:Louis Xiv,Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek, | |
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