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Great Events from History: The Seventeenth Century 1601-1700

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Revenge Tragedies Become Popular in England




Rise of Rwanda




Advances in Medicine




Age of Mercantilism in Southeast Asia




Birth Control in Western Europe




Emergence of Luba Governance




England’s Agricultural Revolution




Europe Endorses Slavery




The Pepper Trade




Rise of Proto-Industrial Economies




Rise of the Gunpowder Empires




Songhai Empire Dissolves




Elizabethan Poor Law




Emergence of Baroque Music




Emergence of the Merina Kingdom




Expansion of the Oyo Kingdom




Appearance of the False Dmitry




Shakespeare Produces His Later Plays




Emergence of Baroque Art




Rise of Scientific Societies




Spanish Golden Age




Essex Rebellion




Siege of Oostende




Dutch Defeat the Portuguese in Bantam Harbor




Japan Admits Western Traders




Ottoman-S?afavid Wars




Dutch East India Company Is Founded




First Modern Libraries in Europe




Tokugawa Shogunate Begins




Reign of Sultan Ahmed I




Okuni Stages the First Kabuki Dance Dramas




Champlain’s Voyages




James I Becomes King of England




Rise of Criollo Identity in Mexico




First European Settlement in North America




Cervantes Publishes Don Quixote de La Mancha




Mughal Court Culture Flourishes




Dutch Dominate Southeast Asian Trade




Egyptians Rebel Against the Ottomans




Gunpowder Plot




Europeans Settle in India




First European Contact with Australia




Great Jel?l? Revolts




Treaty of Zsitvatorok




Neo-Confucianism Becomes Japan’s Official Philosophy




First Performance of Monteverdi’s La Favola d’Orfeo




Jamestown Is Founded




Martin Begins Draining Lake Texcoco




Jesuits Found Paraguay




Invention of the Telescope




Bank of Amsterdam Invents Checks




China Begins Shipping Tea to Europe




Construction of the Blue Mosque




Kepler’s Laws of Planetary Motion




Galileo Confirms the Heliocentric Model of the Solar System




Reign of Louis XIII




Hudson Explores Hudson Bay




Publication of the King James Bible




Jesuits Begin Missionary Activities in New France




Introduction of Tobacco Farming in North America




Rise of the Arma in Timbuktu




Sanctorius Invents the Clinical Thermometer




Election of Michael Romanov as Czar




Burning of the Globe Theatre




Siege of ?saka Castle




Japanese Ban Christian Missionaries




Coffee Culture Flourishes




Guamán Poma Pleas for Inca Reforms




Promulgation of the Buke Shohatto and Kinch? Narabini Kuge Shohatto




Invention and Development of the Calculus




Rise of the Manchus




Edo’s Floating World District




Harvey Discovers the Circulation of the Blood




European Powers Vie for Control of Gorée




Smallpox Epidemics Kill Native Americans




Thirty Years’ War




Defenestration of Prague




Indentured Servitude Becomes Institutionalized in America




Jones Introduces Classicism to English Architecture




Construction of Samarqand’s Shirdar Madrasa




The Middle Passage to American Slavery




First General Assembly of Virginia




Africans Arrive in Virginia




Bacon Publishes Novum Organum




Struggle for the Valtelline Pass




Battle of White Mountain




Pilgrims Arrive in North America




Reign of Philip IV




The Great Protestation




Powhatan Wars




Janissary Revolt and Osman II’s Assassination




Murad IV Rules the Ottoman Empire




Earliest Calculators Appear




Japan’s Seclusion Policy




Formation of the Kuba Kingdom




Grotius Establishes the Concept of International Law




Revolt of the Huguenots




English Discover and Colonize Barbados




Founding of New Amsterdam




Dutch and Portuguese Struggle for the Guinea Coast




Civil War Ravages Vietnam




Algonquians “Sell” Manhattan Island




Company of New France Is Chartered




Petition of Right




S?afavid Dynasty Flourishes Under YAbb?s the Great




“Personal Rule” of Charles I




Edict of Restitution




Slaves Resist Europeans at Palmares




Destruction of Bavaria




Dutch Wars in Brazil




Great Puritan Migration




The Day of Dupes




Li Zicheng’s Revolt




Women First Appear on the English Stage




Galileo Publishes Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican




Shah Jahan Builds the Taj Mahal




Polish-Russian Wars for the Ukraine




Zuñi Rebellion




Settlement of Connecticut




Great Fire of Constantinople and Murad’s Reforms




Peace of Prague




Rhode Island Is Founded




Pequot War




Descartes Publishes His Discourse on Method




Shimabara Revolt




First Printing Press in North America




Waning of the Devshirme System




Urga Becomes the Seat of the Living Buddha




Spread of Jansenism




British East India Company Establishes Fort Saint George




First Bishops’ War




Russians Reach the Pacific Ocean




Foundation of the Darfur Sultanate




Reign of Frederick William, the Great Elector




Revolt of the Catalans




Bandeirantes Expel the Jesuits




Beginning of England’s Long Parliament




Capture of Malacca




Conquest of Luanda




Ulster Insurrection




Massachusetts Recognizes Slavery




Tasman Proves Australia Is a Separate Continent




English Civil Wars




Reign of Shah YAbb?s II




Beaver Wars




Westward Migration of Native Americans




Founding of Montreal




Closing of the Theaters




Torricelli Measures Atmospheric Pressure




Peace of Westphalia




Solemn League and Covenant




Confederation of the United Colonies of New England




Ndongo Wars




End of the Ming Dynasty




Manchus Take Beijing




Battle of Marston Moor




Zheng Pirates Raid the Chinese Coast




Puritan New Model Army




Turks Conquer Crete




Levellers Launch an Egalitarian Movement




Cult of the Virgin of Guadalupe




Wars of the Fronde Begin




Establishment of the English Commonwealth




Codification of Russian Serfdom




Maryland Act of Toleration




Dutch School of Painting Flourishes




Emergence of the Guinea Coast States




Wars for the Red Sea Trade




Earthquake Destroys Cuzco




First College in North America




Hobbes Publishes Leviathan




Edo Rebellions




Ietsuna Shogunate




Navigation Act Leads to Anglo-Dutch Wars




Patriarch Nikon’s Reforms




Fox Organizes the Quakers




Dutch Begin to Colonize Southern Africa




Cromwell Rules England as Lord Protector




Pascal and Fermat Devise the Theory of Probability




Portugal Retakes Control of Brazil




First Jewish Settlers in North America




Grimaldi Discovers Diffraction




Penruddock’s Uprising




English Capture of Jamaica




First Northern War




Popularization of Chocolate




Persecution of Iranian Jews




Construction of the Piazza San Pietro




Ottoman Empire’s Brief Recovery




Huygens Identifies Saturn’s Rings




Work Begins on Japan’s National History




Meireki Fire Ravages Edo




First Newspaper Ads Appear




Reign of Aurangzeb




Explorations of Radisson and Chouart des Groseilliers




Expansion of the Alawis




Restoration of Charles II




Treaty of the Pyrenees




First Microscopic Observations




A Jihad Is Called in Senegambia




Boyle’s Law and the Birth of Modern Chemistry




British Navigation Acts




Absolute Monarchy Emerges in France




Clarendon Code




Colbert Develops Mercantilism




Height of Qing Dynasty




Virginia Slave Codes




Portugal Cedes Bombay to the English




Half-Way Covenant




England’s Licensing Acts




Public Transportation Begins




England’s Act of Uniformity




Settlement of the Carolinas




Molière Writes Tartuffe




Willis Identifies the Basal Ganglia




British Conquest of New Netherland




Trappist Order Is Founded




Cassini Discovers Jupiter’s Great Red Spot




Construction of the Languedoc Canal




Shabbetai Tzevi’s Messianic Movement Begins




Second Anglo-Dutch War




Great Plague in London




Battle of Mbwila




Stradivari Makes His First Violin




Founding of the Mar?th? Kingdom




Great Fire of London




Consecration of the First Cathedral in Mexico




Milton Publishes Paradise Lost




Pufendorf Advocates a Unified Germany




Razin Leads Peasant Uprising in Russia




War of Devolution




Impeachment of Clarendon




Triple Alliance Forms




Spain Recognizes Portugal’s Independence




Steno Presents His Theories of Fossils and Dynamic Geology




John of Austria’s Revolts




First Widespread Smallpox Inoculations




Popularization of the Grand Tour




Promulgation of the Sacred Edict




Rise of the Asante Empire




Charles Town Is Founded




Hudson’s Bay Company Is Chartered




American Indian Slave Trade




Newton Builds His Reflecting Telescope




Leeuwenhoek Discovers Microscopic Life




Self-Immolation of the Old Believers




French-Dutch War




Ottoman-Polish Wars




Buxtehude Begins His Abendmusiken Concerts




French Explore the Mississippi Valley




Huygens Explains the Pendulum




Renovation of the Louvre




Test Acts




Rebellion of the Three Feudatories




Decline of Benin




Rise of Buganda




Sulawesi Traders Make Contact with Australian Aborigines




Wren Supervises the Rebuilding of St. Paul’s Cathedral




Metacom’s War Begins




Sydenham Advocates Clinical Observation




Bacon’s Rebellion




Rømer Calculates the Speed of Light




Ottoman-Muscovite Wars




Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress Appears




Treaties of Nijmegen




The Popish Plot




La Salle’s Expeditions




Habeas Corpus Act




R?jput Rebellion




Guerra dos Bárbaros




Reign of Tsunayoshi as Shogun




Spanish Inquisition Holds a Grandiose Auto-da-Fé




Pueblo Revolt




“Holy Experiment” Establishes Pennsylvania




Decline of the Solomonid Dynasty




French Court Moves to Versailles




Rye House Plot




Defeat of the Ottomans at Vienna




Holy League Ends Ottoman Rule of the Danubian Basin




Louis XIV Revokes the Edict of Nantes




Halley Develops the First Weather Map




Dominion of New England Forms




Decline of the Ottoman Empire




Declaration of Liberty of Conscience




Newton Formulates the Theory of Universal Gravitation




Reign of William and Mary




Genroku Era




The Glorious Revolution




Reforms of Peter the Great




Famine and Inflation in France




Wars of the League of Augsburg




Declaration of Rights




Siege of Londonderry




Toleration Act




Treaty of Nerchinsk Draws Russian-Chinese Border




Brazilian Gold Rush




Movement to Reform Manners




Extinction of the Dodo Bird




Locke Publishes Two Treatises of Government




Salem Witchcraft Trials




Corn Riots in Mexico City




Ray Argues for Animal Consciousness




Bank of England Is Chartered




End of Press Censorship in England




Köprülü Reforms of Hüseyin Pa?a




Peter the Great Tours Western Europe




Treaty of Ryswick




Savery Patents the First Successful Steam Engine




First and Second Treaties of Partition




British Establish Trading Post in Canton




Treaty of Karlowitz




Singh Founds the Khalsa Brotherhood




French Found the Louisiana Colony




Battle of Narva