The table of contents for the full contents of Great Events from History: The Seventeenth Century.
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-Ṣafavid 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 Jelālī 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 Ōsaka Castle
Japanese Ban Christian Missionaries
Coffee Culture Flourishes
Guamán Poma Pleas for Inca Reforms
Promulgation of the Buke Shohatto and Kinchū 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
Ṣafavid Dynasty Flourishes Under YAbbās 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 YAbbās 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 Marāthā 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
Rājput 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 Paşa
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