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17th Century

As a means of recording the passage of time, the 17th century was that century which lasted from 1601-1700 in the Gregorian calendar. more...

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1600s

1601: Battle of Kinsale, the most important battle in Irish history, fought.; 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 which rules the country until 1868.; 1603-23: After modernizing his army, Abbas I expands Persia by capturing territory from the Ottomans and the Portuguese.; 1605: Gunpowder Plot failed in England.; 1607: The London Company establishes the Jamestown Settlement in North America precipitating the British colonization of the Americas.; 1608: Quebec City founded by Samuel de Champlain in New France (present-day Canada).;

1610s

1611: The King James Version of the Bible is completed.; 1613: The Time of Troubles in Russia ends with the establishment of the House of Romanov which rules until 1917.; 1615: The Mughal Empire grants extensive trading rights to the British East India Company.; 1618-48: The Thirty Years' War devastates Central Europe.;

1620s

1624-42: As chief minister, Cardinal Richelieu centralizes power in France.; 1625: New Amsterdam founded by the Dutch West India Company in North America.;

1630s

1637: The Dutch tulip mania bubble bursts.; 1637: The Pequot War, the first of the American Indian Wars; 1639-51: Wars of the Three Kingdoms, civil wars throughout Scotland, Ireland, and England.;

1640s

1640: Portugal regains its independence from Spain bringing an end to 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.; 1642: Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman achieves the first recorded European sighting of New Zealand.; 1644: The Manchu conquer China ending the Ming Dynasty. The subsequent Qing Dynasty rules until 1912.; 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.; 1648-53: Fronde civil war in France.; 1648-67: The Deluge wars leave Poland in ruins.; 1648-69: The Ottoman Empire captures Crete from the Venetians after the Siege of Candia.;