Date
Region
Event




Early 17th c.
Europe
Revenge Tragedies Become Popular in England


Early 17th c.
Africa
Rise of Rwanda


17th c.
World
Advances in Medicine


17th c.
Southeast Asia
Age of Mercantilism in Southeast Asia


17th c.
Europe
Birth Control in Western Europe


17th c.
Africa
Emergence of Luba Governance


17th c.
Europe
England’s Agricultural Revolution


17th c.
Europe
Europe Endorses Slavery


17th c.
Southeast Asia
The Pepper Trade


17th c.
Europe
Rise of Proto-Industrial Economies


17th c.
World
Rise of the Gunpowder Empires


17th c.
Africa
Songhai Empire Dissolves


1601
Europe
Caracci finishes the Galleria ceiling of the Palazzo Farnese


1601
Europe
Elizabethan Poor Law


c. 1601
Europe
Emergence of Baroque Music


c. 1601
Africa
Emergence of the Merina Kingdom


Beginning c. 1601
Africa
Expansion of the Oyo Kingdom


1601
Europe
Foundation of the Academy of the Lynxes


c. 1601-1606
Europe
Appearance of the False Dmitry


c. 1601-1613
Europe
Shakespeare Produces His Later Plays


c. 1601-1620
Europe
Emergence of Baroque Art


1601-1672
Europe
Rise of Scientific Societies


c. 1601-1682
Europe
Spanish Golden Age


Feb. 7-19, 1601
Europe
Essex Rebellion


July 5, 1601-Apr., 1604
Europe
Siege of Oostende


Dec., 1601
Southeast Asia
Dutch Defeat the Portuguese in Bantam Harbor


1602
Europe
Caccini publishes The New Music



1602
Europe
Caravaggio paints The Taking of Christ



1602
Europe
Ulster submits to England


1602-1613
East Asia
Japan Admits Western Traders


1602-1639
Middle East
Ottoman-Ṣafavid Wars


Mar. 20, 1602
South Asia
Dutch East India Company Is Founded


Nov., 1602
Europe
First Modern Libraries in Europe


1603
Africa
Death of the last Saՙdian sultan


1603
East Asia
Tokugawa Shogunate Begins


1603-1617
Middle East
Reign of Sultan Ahmed I


1603-1629
East Asia
Okuni Stages the First Kabuki Dance Dramas


Mar. 15, 1603-Dec. 25, 1635
North America
Champlain’s Voyages


Mar. 24, 1603
Europe
James I Becomes King of England


1604
Europe
First Enclosure Act passed by English parliament


1604
Europe
King James I publishes A Counterblaste to Tobacco



1604
Europe
Treaty of London


1604-1680
North America
Rise of Criollo Identity in Mexico


Spring, 1604
North America
First European Settlement in North America


1605
North America
French found Acadia


1605
East Asia
Tokugawa Ieyasu passes the title of shogun to his son


c. 1605-1606
Europe
First production of Shakespeare’s King Lear



1605 and 1615
Europe
Cervantes Publishes Don Quixote De La Mancha



1605-1627
South Asia
Mughal Court Culture Flourishes


Beginning Spring, 1605
Southeast Asia
Dutch Dominate Southeast Asian Trade


Sept., 1605
Africa
Egyptians Rebel Against the Ottomans


Nov. 5, 1605
Europe
Gunpowder Plot


1606
Southeast Asia
Dutch and Portuguese first battle for control of Malacca


1606-1674
South Asia
Europeans Settle in India


Apr. 29, 1606
Australia
First European Contact with Australia


Sept., 1606-June, 1609
Middle East
Great Jelālī Revolts


Nov. 11, 1606
Europe
Treaty of Zsitvatorok


Beginning 1607
East Asia
Neo-Confucianism Becomes Japan’s Official Philosophy


1607
Europe
Scrooby Congregation emigrates to the Netherlands


1607
Europe
Ulster’s nobility flees to the Continent


Feb. 24, 1607
Europe
First Performance of Monteverdi’s La favola d’Orfeo



May 14, 1607
North America
Jamestown Is Founded


Nov. 28, 1607
North America
Martin Begins Draining Lake Texcoco


1608
Europe
Establishment of the Evangelical Union


1608
Latin America
Jesuits Found Paraguay


1608
North America
Quebec is founded


Sept., 1608
Europe
Invention of the Telescope


1609
Europe
Bank of Amsterdam Invents Checks


1609
East Asia/Europe
China Begins Shipping Tea to Europe


1609
East Asia
Dutch traders establish factory on Hirado Island, Japan


1609
Europe
Establishment of the Catholic League


1609
Europe
Kepler publishes his New Astronomy



1609
Europe
Spain expels the Moriscos


1609-1617
Middle East
Construction of the Blue Mosque


1609-1619
Europe
Kepler’s Laws of Planetary Motion


1610
North America
Franciscans found a mission in Santa Fe


1610
Europe
Galileo Confirms the Heliocentric Model of the Solar System


1610-1614
Europe
Rubens paints his triptychs of Christ on the Cross


1610-1617
Europe
Regency of French queen Marie de Médicis


1610-1643
Europe
Reign of Louis XIII


Beginning June, 1610
North America
Hudson Explores Hudson Bay


1611
South Asia
British East India Company establishes a factory at Masulipatam


1611
Europe
Publication of the King James Bible


1611-1630’s
North America
Jesuits Begin Missionary Activities in New France


1612
North America
Introduction of Tobacco Farming in North America


1612
Africa
Rise of the Arma in Timbuktu


1612
Europe
Sanctorius Invents the Clinical Thermometer


Aug., 1612
Europe
Expulsion of Polish forces from Moscow


Feb. 7, 1613
Europe
Election of Michael Romanov as Czar


June 29, 1613
Europe
Burning of the Globe Theatre


July-Nov., 1613
North America
Captain Samuel Argall, admiral of Virginia, destroys French settlements at Port Royal, Saint Croix, and Saint Sauveur


1614-1615
East Asia
Siege of Ōsaka Castle


Jan. 27, 1614
East Asia
Japanese Ban Christian Missionaries


July-Nov., 1613
North America
Captain Samuel Argall, admiral of Virginia, destroys French settlements at Port Royal, Saint Croix, and Saint Sauveur


Beginning c. 1615
Europe
Coffee Culture Flourishes


1615
Europe
The Inquisition condemns the Copernican model of the solar system


1615
Latin America
Guamán Poma Pleas for Inca Reforms


1615
Europe
Polish landowners invade Ottoman Moldavia


1615
East Asia
Promulgation of the Buke Shohatto and Kinchū Narabini Kuge Shohatto



1615-1696
Europe
Invention and Development of the Calculus


1616
South Asia
Danish East India Company is founded


1616
East Asia
Nurhaci founds the Hou Jin Dynasty


1616-1643
East Asia
Rise of the Manchus


1617
Africa
Dutch purchase Gorée Island


1617
East Asia
Edo’s Floating World District


1617-1619
Southeast Asia
Sultan of Banten besieges Dutch headquarters at Jacatra (Jakarta)


1617-1628
Europe
Harvey Discovers the Circulation of the Blood


1617-1693
Africa
European Powers Vie for Control of Gorée


1617-c. 1700
North America
Smallpox Epidemics Kill Native Americans


Mar., 1617
Europe
Spain and the Habsburgs agree to cooperate in Catholic military ventures


1618-1648
Europe
Thirty Years’ War


May 23, 1618
Europe
Defenestration of Prague


Beginning c. 1619
North America
Indentured Servitude Becomes Institutionalized in America


1619-1622
Europe
Jones Introduces Classicism to English Architecture


1619-1633
Europe
Filaret, patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, rules Russia alongside Michael


1619-1636
Central Asia
Construction of Samarqand’s Shirdar Madrasa


1619-c. 1700
Americas/Africa
The Middle Passage to American Slavery


May, 1619
Southeast Asia
Jacatra is destroyed and renamed Batavia


July 30-Aug. 4, 1619
North America
First General Assembly of Virginia


Aug. 20, 1619
North America
Africans Arrive in Virginia


1620
Europe
Bacon Publishes Novum Organum



1620
Middle East
Construction of the Lab-i Haws


July, 1620-Sept., 1639
Europe
Struggle for the Valtelline Pass


July 3, 1620
Europe
Treaty of Ulm


Nov. 8, 1620
Europe
Battle of White Mountain


Dec. 26, 1620
North America
Pilgrims Arrive in North America


1621
Southeast Asia
Dutch invade Banda Islands


1621
Caribbean
Dutch West India Company is founded


1621
Europe
Siege of Khotin


Mar. 31, 1621-Sept. 17, 1665
Europe
Reign of Philip IV


Apr., 1621
Europe
Treaty of Madrid


Dec. 18, 1621
Europe
The Great Protestation


1622
East Asia
The Great Martyrdom: Fifty-five Japanese Christians are executed


Jan., 1622
Middle East
Ṣafavids take Hormuz from the Portuguese


Mar. 22, 1622-Oct., 1646
North America
Powhatan Wars


Apr. 25, 1622
Europe
Battle of Wiesloch


May 19, 1622
Middle East
Janissary Revolt and Osman II’s Assassination


1623
Southeast Asia
Dutch massacre English traders at Amboina


1623
Europe
Publication of Shakespeare’s First Folio


1623-1624
Middle East
ՙAbbās the Great invades Iraq


1623-1640
Middle East
Murad IV Rules the Ottoman Empire


1623-1674
Europe
Earliest Calculators Appear


1624
Europe
Donne publishes Devotions upon Emergent Occasions



1624
Latin America
Dutch launch naval strikes against Salvador


1624
Europe
English parliament abolishes monopolies


1624
Middle East
Oman expels Portuguese and establishes Al-Yaՙruba Dynasty


1624
North America
Virginia becomes a royal colony


1624-1627
East Asia
Imperial eunich Wei Zhongxian acts as de facto dictator of China


1624-1640’s
East Asia
Japan’s Seclusion Policy


1625
Africa/Americas
Dutch enter the transatlantic slave trade


c. 1625
Africa
Formation of the Kuba Kingdom


1625
Europe
Grotius Establishes the Concept of International Law


c. 1625
Europe
Strozzi paints The Cook



1625-Oct. 28, 1628
Europe
Revolt of the Huguenots


May 14, 1625-1640
Caribbean
English Discover and Colonize Barbados


July, 1625-Aug., 1664
North America
Founding of New Amsterdam


Oct., 1625-1637
Africa
Dutch and Portuguese Struggle for the Guinea Coast


1626
Europe
Treaty of Monzon


1626-1673
Southeast Asia
Civil War Ravages Vietnam


Apr. 10-21, 1626
Europe
Battle of Dessau Bridge


May 6, 1626
North America
Algonquians “Sell” Manhattan Island


Aug. 26, 1626
Europe
Battle of Lutter


1627
Europe
Cardinal de Richelieu reforms French colonial policy


Apr. 27, 1627
North America
Company of New France Is Chartered


Aug. 10, 1627-Oct. 28, 1628
Europe
Siege of La Rochelle


1628-1631
Europe
War of Mantuan Succession


May-July, 1628
Europe
Siege of Strasund


May 6-June 7, 1628
Europe
Petition of Right


1629
Europe
Grace of Alais


1629
East Asia
Japan bans women from the stage


1629
Middle East
Ṣafavid Dynasty Flourishes Under ՙAbbās the Great


Mar., 1629-1640
Europe
“Personal Rule” of Charles I


Mar. 6, 1629
Europe
Edict of Restitution


May 22, 1629
Europe
Peace of Lübeck


1630’s-1694
Latin America
Slaves Resist Europeans at Palmares


1630
Europe
Stelluti publishes the first drawings of insects as seen through a microscope


1630
Europe
Treaty of Cherasco


1630-1648
Europe
Destruction of Bavaria


1630-1654
Latin America
Dutch establish New Holland in northeastern Brazil


1630-1660’s
Latin America
Dutch Wars in Brazil


May, 1630-1643
Europe/North America
Great Puritan Migration


July-Nov., 1630
Europe
Electoral assembly at Regensburg


July 6, 1630
Europe
Swedish army arrives in Pomerania


Nov. 10, 1630
Europe
The Day of Dupes


1631
East Asia
Siege of Dalinghe


1631-1645
East Asia
Li Zicheng’s Revolt


Feb. 24, 1631
Europe
Women First Appear on the English Stage


May 20, 1631
Europe
Fall of Magdeburg


Sept. 17, 1631
Europe
First Battle of Breitenfeld


1632
Central Asia
Cossacks establish Yakutsk


1632
Europe
Galileo Publishes Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican



1632
North America
Powhatan Indians negotiate a peace treaty with English settlers


1632
North America/Europe
Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye reestablishes French sovereignty over Acadia, Nova Scotia, and Quebec


1632-c. 1650
South Asia
Shah Jahan Builds the Taj Mahal


1632-1667
Europe
Polish-Russian Wars for the Ukraine


Feb. 22-27, 1632
North America
Zuñi Rebellion


Apr., 1632
Europe
Battle of Lech


Fall, 1632-Jan. 5, 1665
North America
Settlement of Connecticut


Nov. 16, 1632
Europe
Battle of Lützen


1633
Europe
Trial of Galileo


1633-1638
Europe
Van Dyck paints his portraits of Charles I


Sept. 2, 1633
Middle East
Great Fire of Constantinople and Murad’s Reforms


1634
Africa/Americas
French enter the transatlantic slave trade


Feb. 25, 1634
Europe
Wallenstein is assassinated


June, 1634
Europe
Peace of Polianovka


Sept. 6, 1634
Europe
Battle of Nördlingen


1635
North America
Jesuits found a college in Quebec


1635
East Asia
Manchus establish a capital at Mukden


1635
Europe
Velázquez paints the Surrender of Breda



May, 1635-Dec., 1638
Middle East
Murad IV invades Iraq


May 30, 1635
Europe
Peace of Prague


Oct. 9, 1635
North America
Massachusetts Bay Colony orders Roger Williams to leave its territory


1636
East Asia
Abahai renames Hou Jin Dynasty as Qing Dynasty and declares himself first Qing emperor of China


Jan., 1636
North America
Williams flees Massachusetts


June, 1636
North America
Rhode Island Is Founded


July 20, 1636-July 28, 1637
North America
Pequot War


Oct. 4, 1636
Europe
Battle of Wittstock


1637
Europe
Descartes Publishes His Discourse on Method



1637
Europe
Archbishop Laud and Charles I attempt to impose a Book of Common Prayer on Scotland


Oct., 1637-Apr. 15, 1638
East Asia
Shimabara Revolt


1638
North America
First Printing Press in North America


1638
North America
New Haven is founded


1638
Middle East
Waning of the Devshirme System


1638-1639
Central Asia
Urga Becomes the Seat of the Living Buddha


1638-1669
Europe
Spread of Jansenism


Mar. 2, 1638
Europe
Battle of Rheinfelden


1639
Caribbean
Barbados holds its first Parliament


1639
North America
Framing of the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut


1639-1640
South Asia
British East India Company Establishes Fort Saint George


Mar.-June, 1639
Europe
First Bishops’ War


Spring, 1639
North America
Pocasset (Portsmouth) is founded


April 22, 1639
Europe
Pope Urban VIII issues a bull outlawing slavery in the New World


May, 1639
Middle East
Treaty of Kasr-I Shirin


June 19, 1639
Europe
Pacification of Berwick


Sept., 1639
Europe
Capitulation of Milan


Dec., 1639
East Asia
Russians Reach the Pacific Ocean


1640
Africa
Foundation of the Darfur Sultanate


1640
East Asia
Portugal sends a diplomatic mission to reopen relations with Japan; most of the crew is executed


1640-1641
Europe
Diet of Regensburg


1640-1641
Europe
Publication of Jansen’s Augustinus



1640-1688
Europe
Reign of Frederick William, the Great Elector


Apr. 13-May 5, 1640
Europe
England’s Short Parliament


May, 1640-Jan. 23, 1641
Europe
Revolt of the Catalans


June, 1640
Europe
Pope Urban VIII issues a bull condemning the enslavement of Native American peoples


June-Aug., 1640
Latin America

Bandeirantes Expel the Jesuits


Nov. 3, 1640-May 15, 1641
Europe
Beginning of England’s Long Parliament


Dec., 1640
Europe
Portugal asserts its independence from Spain


1641
Europe
Descartes publishes Meditations on First Philosophy



1641
East Asia
Dutch trade in Japan is confined to Dejima Island, Nagasaki Harbor


1641-1645
North America
Kieft’s War


Jan. 14, 1641
Southeast Asia
Capture of Malacca


Feb. 8, 1641
Europe
Parliamentary debate begins on England’s Root and Branch Petition


Feb. 16, 1641
Europe
England’s Triennial Act


Aug. 26, 1641-Sept., 1648
Africa
Conquest of Luanda


Oct. 23, 1641-1642
Europe
Ulster Insurrection


Nov., 1641
North America
Massachusetts Recognizes Slavery


1642
South Asia
French East India Company is founded


1642
Central Asia
Gushri Kahn installs the Dalai Lama as religious and secular ruler of Tibet


1642
Europe
Rembrandt paints The Night Watch



1642 and 1644
Australia
Tasman Proves Australia Is a Separate Continent


1642-1651
Europe
English Civil Wars


1642-1666
Middle East
Reign of Shah ՙAbbās II


1642-1684
North America
Beaver Wars


1642-1700
North America
Westward Migration of Native Americans


May, 1642
North America
Founding of Montreal


Sept. 2, 1642
Europe
Closing of the Theaters


Oct. 23, 1642
Europe
Battle of Edgehill


Nov. 2, 1642
Europe
Second Battle of Breitenfeld


Nov. 12, 1642
Europe
Battle of Turnham Green


1643
Europe
Fall of Olivares as Spain’s chief minister


1643
Europe
Torricelli Measures Atmospheric Pressure


1643
Southeast Asia
Vietnam defeats small Dutch fleet near Da Nang


Nov. 24-25, 1643
Europe
Battle of Tuttlingen


1643-1645
Europe
Swedish-Danish War


1643-1715
Europe
Louis XIV rules France


June 30, 1643
Europe
Battle of Adwalton Moor


July, 1643-Oct. 24, 1648
Europe
Peace of Westphalia


July 5, 1643
Europe
Battle of Lansdown Hill


July 13, 1643
Europe
Battle of Roundway Down


Aug. 17-Sept. 25, 1643
Europe
Solemn League and Covenant


Sept. 8, 1643
North America
Confederation of the United Colonies of New England


Sept. 20, 1643
Europe
First Battle of Newbury


Oct. 11, 1643
Europe
Battle of Winceby


Dec. 12, 1643
Europe
Battle of Alton


1644
Europe
The Globe Theatre is demolished


1644-1654
Europe
Reign of Queen Christina of Sweden


1644-1671
Africa
Ndongo Wars


Apr. 18, 1644
North America
Powhatan Indians massacre five hundred English settlers


Apr. 25, 1644
East Asia
End of the Ming Dynasty


June 6, 1644
East Asia
Manchus Take Beijing


July 2, 1644
Europe
Battle of Marston Moor


Aug. 31-Sept. 2, 1644
Europe
Battle of Lostwithiel


Sept., 1644
North America
Providence, Portsmouth, and Newport are united by royal patent


Oct. 27, 1644
Europe
Second Battle of Newbury


c. 1645-1652
Europe
Bernini sculpts the Ecstasy of Saint Theresa



1645-1683
East Asia
Zheng Pirates Raid the Chinese Coast


Spring, 1645-1660
Europe
Puritan New Model Army


Apr., 1645
Europe
English parliament passes the Self-Denying Ordinance, purging all of its members except Cromwell from the army


June 14, 1645
Europe
Battle of Naseby


July 10, 1645
Europe
Battle of Langport


Aug. 22, 1645-Sept., 1669
Europe
Turks Conquer Crete


1646-1649
Europe
Levellers Launch an Egalitarian Movement


1647
East Asia
Russians found Pacific port of Okhotsk


Mar. 14, 1647
Europe
Truce of Ulm


1648
Middle East
ՙAbbās II drives the Mughals out of Iran


1648
North America
Cult of the Virgin of Guadalupe


1648
East Asia/North America
Dezhnyov and Alekseyev navigate the Bering Strait


1648
Europe
Spain recognizes Dutch independence; end of the Eighty Years’ War


1648-1654
Europe
Dnieper Cossacks rebel against Poland


Spr., 1648-1649
Middle East
Venetian fleet blockades Constantinople


May 17, 1648
Europe
Battle of Zusmarshausen


June, 1648
Europe
Wars of the Fronde Begin


Aug. 18, 1648
Latin America
Portuguese Brazil takes Dutch Brazilian stronghold at São Paulo


Aug. 20, 1648
Europe
Battle of Lens


Dec. 6, 1648
Europe
Pride’s Purge


Dec. 6, 1648-May 19, 1649
Europe
Establishment of the English Commonwealth


1649
North America
Cambridge Platform unifies church and state in the Massachusetts Bay Colony


1649
Europe
Treaty of Reuil


Jan. 29, 1649
Europe
Codification of Russian Serfdom


Jan. 30, 1649
Europe
Charles I is beheaded


Apr. 21, 1649
North America
Maryland Act of Toleration


Aug., 1649
Europe
Lilburne is tried and acquitted of treason


Mid-17th c.
Europe
Dutch School of Painting Flourishes


Mid-17th c.
Africa
Emergence of the Guinea Coast States


1650
North America
Connecticut recognizes slavery


1650
Europe
Guericke invents the air pump


1650
Middle East
Oman takes Muscat


1650-1698
Middle East/Africa
Wars for the Red Sea Trade


Mar. 31, 1650
Latin America
Earthquake Destroys Cuzco


May 30-31, 1650
North America
First College in North America


Sept. 3, 1650
Europe
Battle of Dunbar


1651
Europe
Hobbes Publishes Leviathan



1651
Europe
Scotland recognizes King Charles II in exile


1651-1652
East Asia
Edo Rebellions


1651-1680
East Asia
Ietsuna Shogunate


Sept. 3, 1651
Europe
Battle of Worcester


Oct., 1651-May, 1652
Europe
Navigation Act Leads to Anglo-Dutch Wars


1652
East Asia
Japan bans young boys from the stage


1652-1667
Europe
Patriarch Nikon’s Reforms


1652-1689
Europe
Fox Organizes the Quakers


Apr., 1652
Africa
Dutch Begin to Colonize Southern Africa


May, 1652
Europe
George Fox has a revelation on Pendle Hill


Oct. 13, 1652
Europe
Barcelona surrenders to Spain


Dec. 16, 1653-Sept. 3, 1658
Europe
Cromwell Rules England as Lord Protector


1654
Europe
Abdication of Sweden’s Queen Christina


1654
Europe
Pascal and Fermat Devise the Theory of Probability


1654
Latin America
Portugal Retakes Control of Brazil


1654-1667
Europe
Thirteen Years’ War


Summer, 1654-1656
North America
First Jewish Settlers in North America


1655
North America
Pequot nation is relocated onto two reservations on Mystic River


1655-1663
Europe
Grimaldi Discovers Diffraction


1655-1664
North America
Peach Wars


Mar. 12-14, 1655
Europe
Penruddock’s Uprising


May 10, 1655
Caribbean
English Capture of Jamaica


July 10, 1655-June 21, 1661
Europe
First Northern War


1656
Europe
Popularizaiton of Chocolate


1656
Europe
Velázquez paints Las Meninas



1656-1657
Europe
Publication of Pascal’s The Provincial Letters



1656-1662
Middle East
Persecution of Iranian Jews


1656-1667
Europe
Construction of the Piazza San Pietro


1656-1676
Middle East
Ottoman Empire’s Brief Recovery


Feb., 1656
Europe
Huygens Identifies Saturn’s Rings


June, 1656
Middle East
Venetian fleet destroys the Ottoman fleet at the Dardanelles


1657
East Asia
Work Begins on Japan’s National History


1657-1667
Europe
Italian Academy of Experiments meets


Jan. 18-20, 1657
East Asia
Meireki Fire Ravages Edo


Sept., 1657
Europe
Treaty of Wehlau


1658
South Asia
Dutch drive Portuguese out of Ceylon


Beginning 1658
Europe
First Newspaper Ads Appear


1658-1659
East Asia
Zheng Chenggong invades central China


1658-1707
South Asia
Reign of Aurangzeb


June 19, 1658
Europe
Battle of Konotop


Aug., 1658-Aug. 24, 1660
North America
Explorations of Radisson and Chouart des Groseilliers


Sept. 16, 1658
Europe
Treaty of Hadiach


1659
Africa
Expansion of the Alawis


May, 1659-May, 1660
Europe
Restoration of Charles II


Nov. 7, 1659
Europe
Treaty of the Pyrenees


1660’s-1700
Europe
First Microscopic Observations


1660
Europe
English theaters reopen


1660
Europe
Marcello Malpighi discovers capillaries


1660-1665
Africa
Oman occupies Mombasa


1660-1677
Africa
A Jihad Is Called in Senegambia


1660-1692
Europe
Boyle’s Law and the Birth of Modern Chemistry


Sept. 13, 1660-July 27, 1663
Europe/North America
British Navigation Acts


1661
Europe
Absolute Monarchy Emerges in France


1661
East Asia
Zheng Chenggong seizes control of Taiwan from the Dutch


1661-1665
Europe
Clarendon Code


1661-1672
Europe
Colbert Develops Mercantilism


Feb. 17, 1661-Dec. 20, 1722
East Asia
Height of Qing Dynasty


Mar., 1661-1705
North America
Virginia Slave Codes


June 23, 1661
South Asia
Portugal Cedes Bombay to the English


1662
Europe
English Quaker Act


1662
North America
Half-Way Covenant


1662-May 3, 1695
Europe
England’s Licensing Acts


Mar. 18, 1662
Europe
Public Transportation Begins


May 3, 1662
North America
Connecticut secures a royal charter


May 19, 1662
Europe
England’s Act of Uniformity


July 15, 1662
Europe
Royal Society of London is chartered


1663
North America
Maryland recognizes slavery


1663
North America
New France becomes a royal colony


1663
Europe
Ruisdael paints The Jewish Cemetary



1663
East Asia
Tokugawa Ietsuna outlaws Junshi, or ritual suicide by samurai upon the death of their lord


Mar. 24, 1663-July 25, 1729
North America
Settlement of the Carolinas


July 18, 1663
North America
Rhode Island receives a royal charter codifying its policy of freedom of conscience


1664 and 1670
Europe
English Conventicle Acts


1664
Caribbean
French West India Company is established


1664
Europe
Hals paints Regentesses of the Old Men’s Almshouse



1664
Europe
Molière Writes Tartuffe



1664
North America
New York and New Jersey recognize slavery


1664
Europe
Willis Identifies the Basal Ganglia


Mar. 22, 1664-July 21, 1667
North America
British Conquest of New Netherland


July 13, 1664
Europe
Trappist Order Is Founded


Aug., 1664
Europe
Battle of Szentgotthárd


Aug. 10, 1664
Europe
Treaty of Vasvár


1665
Europe
Cassini Discovers Jupiter’s Great Red Spot


1665-1681
Europe
Construction of the Languedoc Canal


Jan., 1665
Middle East
Shabbetai Tzevi’s Messianic Movement Begins


Jan. 5, 1665
North America
Connecticut annexes New Haven


Mar. 4, 1665-July 31, 1667
Europe
Second Anglo-Dutch War


Spring, 1665-Fall, 1666
Europe
Great Plague in London


Oct. 29, 1665
Africa
Battle of Mbwila


c. 1666
Europe
Stradivari Makes His First Violin


1666-1667
Europe
Vermeer paints Allegory of Painting



c. 1666-1676
South Asia
Founding of the Marāthā Kingdom


Sept. 2-5, 1666
Europe
Great Fire of London


December 22, 1666
Europe
Paris Academy of Sciences is established


1667
North America
Consecration of the First Cathedral in Mexico


1667
Europe
Foundation of France’s Royal Observatory


1667
Europe
Milton Publishes Paradise Lost



1667
Europe
Pufendorf Advocates a Unified Germany


1667
North America
Virginia Assembly declares that religious conversion is not grounds for slaves to be freed


Jan., 1667
Europe
Treaty of Andrusovo


Apr., 1667-June, 1671
Europe
Razin Leads Peasant Uprising in Russia


May 24, 1667-May 2, 1668
Europe
War of Devolution


Dec. 19, 1667
Europe
Impeachment of Clarendon


1668
Europe
Redi demonstrates the source of maggots in rotting flesh


1668
Europe
Vermeer paints The Astronomer



Jan. 23, 1668
Europe
Triple Alliance Forms


Feb. 13, 1668
Europe
Spain Recognizes Portugal’s Independence


Oct. 8, 1668
Europe
Peace of the Church


1669
East Asia
Japanese Ainu stage a rebellion


1669
Europe
Steno Presents His Theories of Fossils and Dynamic Geology


Feb., 1669-Jan., 1677
Europe
John of Austria’s Revolts


1670
Europe
Bushnell’s Case


c. 1670
East Asia/Middle East
First Widespread Smallpox Inoculations


1670
Europe
Popularization of the Grand Tour


1670
East Asia
Promulgation of the Sacred Edict


1670-1699
Africa
Rise of the Asante Empire


Apr., 1670
North America
Charles Town Is Founded


May 2, 1670
North America
Hudson’s Bay Company Is Chartered


June 1, 1670
Europe
France and England sign the Treaty of Dover in secret


Summer, 1670
Europe
Razin takes Saratov and Samara


July 8, 1670
Caribbean
Treaty of Madrid


Beginning 1671
North America
American Indian Slave Trade


Nov. 29, 1671
Africa
Portuguese sack Ndongo’s capital and kill its ruler


Late Dec., 1671
Europe
Newton Builds His Reflecting Telescope


1672
Africa
England’s Royal African Company is founded


1672
Europe
Plague breaks out in Lyon


1672-1684
Europe
Leeuwenhoek Discovers Microscopic Life


1672-c. 1691
Europe
Self-Immolation of the Old Believers


Apr. 6, 1672-Aug. 10, 1678
Europe
Third Anglo-Dutch War


Summer, 1672-Fall, 1676
Europe/Middle East
Ottoman-Polish Wars


Aug. 27, 1672
Europe
Ottomans take Kamieniec Podolski


Oct., 1672
Europe/Middle East
Treaty of Buczacz


c. 1673
Europe
Buxtehude Begins His Abendmusiken Concerts


Beginning 1673
North America
French Explore the Mississippi Valley


1673
Europe
Huygens Explains the Pendulum


1673
Europe
Louis XIV strips parlement of the right to remonstrate against his edicts


1673
Africa
Nāṣir al-Dīn establishes a foothold in Senegal


1673
Europe
Renovation of the Louvre


1673-1678
Europe
Test Acts


Dec., 1673-1681
East Asia
Rebellion of the Three Feudatories


1674
South Asia
French East India Company establishes a base at Pondicherry


Late 17th c.
Africa
Decline of Benin


Late 17th c.
Africa
Rise of Buganda


Late 17th c.
Australia
Sulawesi Traders Make Contact with Australian Aborigines


1675-1708
Europe
Wren Supervises the Rebuilding of St. Paul’s Cathedral


June 20, 1675
North America
Metacom’s War Begins


June 28, 1675
Europe
Battle of Fehrbellin


1676
Europe
Sydenham Advocates Clinical Observation


May 10-Oct. 18, 1676
North America
Bacon’s Rebellion


Dec. 7, 1676
Europe
Rømer Calculates the Speed of Light


1677
Africa
Akwamu captures Greater Accra


1677-1681
Middle East/Europe
Ottoman-Muscovite Wars


Nov. 1, 1677
Africa
France seizes Gorée Island


Feb. 18, 1678
Europe
Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress Appears


Aug. 10, 1678-Sept. 26, 1679
Europe
Treaties of Nijmegen


Aug. 13, 1678-July 1, 1681
Europe
The Popish Plot


Dec., 1678-Mar. 19, 1687
North America
La Salle’s Expeditions


1679
Europe
Habeas Corpus Act


1679
Europe
Treaty of St. Germain


1679-1709
South Asia
Rājput Rebellion


Beginning 1680’s
Latin America
Guerra dos Bárboros


1680-1709
East Asia
Reign of Tsunayoshi as Shogun


June 30, 1680
Europe
Spanish Inquisition Holds a Grandiose Auto-da-fé



Aug. 10, 1680
North America
Pueblo Revolt


1681
Europe
Oil street lights are first used in London


Mar. 4, 1681
North America
“Holy Experiment” Establishes Pennsylvania


Beginning c. 1682
Africa
Decline of the Solomonid Dynasty


1682
Europe
French Court Moves to Versailles


1682
North America
South Carolina recognizes slavery


1682-1725
Europe
Peter the Great rules as Czar of Russia


Aug., 1682-Nov., 1683
Europe
Rye House Plot


July-Oct., 1683
East Asia
Qing forces defeat of the Zheng pirates


July 14-Sept. 12, 1683
Europe
Defeat of the Ottomans at Vienna


1684
East Asia
China annexes Taiwan


1684-1699
Europe
Holy League Ends Ottoman Rule of the Danubian Basin


June 21, 1684
North America
Massachusetts Bay Colony’s charter is revoked by Charles II


1685
North America
First printing press in Philadelphia


1685
Europe
Louis XIV Revokes the Edict of Nantes


1686
Southeast Asia
Dutch take control of Banten’s pepper trade


1686
Europe
Halley Develops the First Weather Map


1686
Europe
Perpetual Peace (Treaty of Moscow) is signed


June, 1686-Apr., 1689
North America
Dominion of New England Forms


1687
South Asia
British East India Company moves its headquarters to Bombay


1687
South Asia
Mughal Empire defeats Golconda sultanate and annexes southeastern India


Beginning 1687
Middle East
Decline of the Ottoman Empire


Apr. 4, 1687, and Apr. 27, 1688
Europe
Declaration of Liberty of Conscience


Summer, 1687
Europe
Newton Formulates the Theory of Universal Gravitation


1688
South Asia
Madras becomes first city in India to receive an English royal charter


1688-1702
Europe
Reign of William and Mary


1688-1704
East Asia
Genroku Era


Nov., 1688-Feb., 1689
Europe
The Glorious Revolution


1689
Middle East
Grand Vizier Kara Mustafa begins to reform Ottoman army


1689
North America
Leisler’s Rebellion


1689
Africa
Morocco takes Al-Araish


Beginning 1689
Europe
Reforms of Peter the Great


1689-1694
Europe
Famine and Inflation in France


1689-1697
Europe
Wars of the League of Augsburg


Feb. 13, 1689
Europe
Declaration of Rights


Mar., 1689
Europe
Louis XIV declares war on William and Mary and sends troops to Ireland to support James II


Apr. 18, 1689
North America
Mutinous troops lead an insurrection in Boston


Apr. 18-July 31, 1689
Europe
Siege of Londonderry


May 24, 1689
Europe
Toleration Act


July, 1689
Europe
Battle of Killiecrankie


Aug. 21, 1689
Europe
Battle of Dunkeld


Aug. 29, 1689
East Asia
Treaty of Nerchinsk Draws Russian-Chinese Border


Early 1690’s
Latin America
Brazilian Gold Rush


Beginning 1690’s
Europe
Movement to Reform Manners


c. 1690
Africa
Extinction of the Dodo Bird


1690
Europe
Locke Publishes Two Treatises of Government



1690
Europe
Scottish Parliament ratifies Westminster Confession of Faith and Presbyterian Polity


1690-1698
South Asia
Siege of Jinji


July 1, 1690
Europe
Battle of the Boyne


1691
North America
Massachusetts Bay Colony annexes Plymouth Colony


Mar. 10, 1691
Europe
Treaty of Limerick


Aug. 20, 1691
Europe
Battle of Slankaman


June 2, 1692-May, 1693
North America
Salem Witchcraft Trials


June 8, 1692
North America
Corn Riots in Mexico City


1693
Africa
England temporarily gains control of Gorée Island


1693
Europe
Ray Argues for Animal Consciousness


July 27, 1694
Europe
Bank of England Is Chartered


May 3, 1695
Europe
End of Press Censorship in England


Mar., 1696-Dec. 14, 1698
Africa
Siege of Fort Jesus


1697-1702
Middle East
Köprülü Reforms of Hüseyin Paşa


Mar. 9, 1697-Aug. 25, 1698
Europe
Peter the Great Tours Western Europe


Sept. 20, 1697
Europe
Treaty of Ryswick


1698
Africa
Oyo invades Weme and Allada


1698
Africa
Royal African Company loses its monopoly on the English slave trade


July 25, 1698
Europe
Savery Patents the First Successful Steam Engine


Oct. 11, 1698, and Mar. 25, 1700
Europe
First and Second Treaties of Partition


Dec. 14, 1698
Africa
Mombasa falls to Oman


1699
Africa
Oman wrests control of Swahili Coast north of Mozambique from Portugal


1699
East Asia
British Establish Trading Post in Canton


Jan. 26, 1699
Europe
Treaty of Karlowitz


Mar. 30, 1699
South Asia
Singh Founds the Khalsa Brotherhood


May 1, 1699
North America
French Found the Louisiana Colony


c. 1700
Europe
Bank of Amsterdam invents system to provide payment anywhere in the world


1700
North America
Carolina Supreme Court is established


c. 1700
Africa
Introduction of ndop sculpture in Kuba kingdom


c. 1700
Africa
King Mwine Kadilo begins expansion of Luba kingdoms


1700
North America
Pennsylvania and Rhode Island recognize slavery


June, 1700
Middle East/Europe
Treaty of Constantinople


July 11, 1700
Europe
Foundation of the Berlin Academy of Science


Aug. 8, 1700
Europe
Peace of Travendal


Nov. 30, 1700
Europe
Battle of Narva