Great events from history. The 17th century, 1601-1700. V.1-2 1587652250, 1587652269, 1587652277, 9781587652257, 9781587652264, 9781587652271, 2005017362

Table of contents :
Volume 1. 1601-1652
Publisher’s Note
Contributors
Keyword List of Contents
List of Maps, Tables, and Sidebars
Maps of the Seventeenth Century
1600’s
Early 17th century, Revenge Tragedies Become Popular in England
Early 17th century, Rise of Rwanda
17th century, Advances in Medicine
17th century, Age of Mercantilism in Southeast Asia
17th century, Birth Control in Western Europe
17th century, Emergence of Luba Governance
17th century, England’s Agricultural Revolution
17th century, Europe Endorses Slavery
17th century, The Pepper Trade
17th century, Rise of Proto-Industrial Economies
17th century, Rise of the Gunpowder Empires
17th century, Songhai Empire Dissolves
1601, Elizabethan Poor Law
c. 1601, Emergence of Baroque Music
c. 1601, Emergence of the Merina Kingdom
Beginning c. 1601, Expansion of the Oyo Kingdom
c. 1601-1606, Appearance of the False Dmitry
c. 1601-1613, Shakespeare Produces His Later Plays
c. 1601-1620, Emergence of Baroque Art
1601-1672, Rise of Scientific Societies
c. 1601-1682, Spanish Golden Age
February 7-19, 1601, Essex Rebellion
July 5, 1601-April, 1604, Siege of Oostende
December, 1601, Dutch Defeat the Portuguese in Bantam Harbor
1602-1613, Japan Admits Western Traders
1602-1639, Ottoman-Safavid Wars
March 20, 1602, Dutch East India Company Is Founded
November, 1602, First Modern Libraries in Europe
1603, Tokugawa Shogunate Begins
1603-1617, Reign of Sultan Ahmed 1
1603-1629, Okuni Stages the First Kabuki Dance Dramas
March 15, 1603-December 25, 1635, Champlain’s Voyages
March 24, 1603, James I Becomes King of England
1604-1680, Rise of Criollo Identity in Mexico
Spring, 1604, First European Settlement in North America
1605 and 1615, Cervantes Publishes Don Quixote de la Mancha
1605-1627, Mughal Court Culture Flourishes
Beginning Spring, 1605, Dutch Dominate Southeast Asian Trade
September, 1605, Egyptians Rebel Against the Ottomans
November 5, 1605, Gunpowder Plot
1606-1674, Europeans Settle in India
April 29, 1606, First European Contact with Australia
September, 1606-June, 1609, Great Jelâlï Revolts
November 11, 1606, Treaty of Zsitvatorok
Beginning 1607, Neo-Confucianism Becomes Japan’s Official Philosophy
February 24, 1607, First Performance of Monteverdi’s La favola d’Orfeo
May 14, 1607, Jamestown Is Founded
November 28, 1607, Martin Begins Draining Lake Texcoco
1608, Jesuits Found Paraguay
September, 1608, Invention of the Telescope
1609, Bank of Amsterdam Invents Checks
1609, China Begins Shipping Tea to Europe
1609-1617, Construction of the Blue Mosque
1609-1619, Kepler’s Laws of Planetary Motion
1610’s
1610, Galileo Confirms the Heliocentric Model of the Solar System
1610-1643, Reign of Louis XIII
Beginning June, 1610, Hudson Explores Hudson Bay
1611, Publication of the King James Bible
1611-1630’s, Jesuits Begin Missionary Activities in New France
1612, Introduction of Tobacco Farming in North America
1612, Rise of the Arma in Timbuktu
1612, Sanctorius Invents the Clinical Thermometer
February 7, 1613, Election of Michael Romanov as Czar
June 29, 1613, Burning of the Globe Theatre
1614-1615, Siege of Osaka Castle
January 27, 1614, Japanese Ban Christian Missionaries
Beginning c. 1615, Coffee Culture Flourishes
1615, Guarnan Poma Pleas for Inca Reforms
1615, Promulgation of the Bake shohatto and Kinchü narabini kuge shohatto
1615-1696, Invention and Development of the Calculus
1616-1643, Rise of the Manchus
1617, Edo’s Floating World District
1617-1628, Harvey Discovers the Circulation of the Blood
1617-1693, European Powers Vie for Control of Gorée
1617-c. 1700, Smallpox Epidemics Kill Native Americans
1618-1648, Thirty Years’ War
May 23, 1618, Defenestration of Prague
Beginning c. 1619, Indentured Servitude Becomes Institutionalized in America
1619-1622, Jones Introduces Classicism to English Architecture
1619-1636, Construction of Samarqand’s Shirdar Madrasa
1619-c. 1700, The Middle Passage to American Slavery
July 30-August 4, 1619, First General Assembly of Virginia
August 20, 1619, Africans Arrive in Virginia
1620’s
1620, Bacon Publishes Novum Organum
July, 1620-September, 1639, Struggle for the Valtelline Pass
November 8, 1620, Battle of White Mountain
December 26, 1620, Pilgrims Arrive in North America
March 31, 1621-September 17, 1665, Reign of Philip IV
December 18, 1621, The Great Protestation
March 22, 1622-October, 1646, Powhatan Wars
May 19, 1622, Janissary Revolt and Osman H’s Assassination
1623-1640, Murad IV Rules the Ottoman Empire
1623-1674, Earliest Calculators Appear
1624-1640’s, Japan’s Seclusion Policy
c. 1625, Formation of the Kuba Kingdom
1625, Grotius Establishes the Concept of International Law
1625-October 28, 1628, Revolt of the Huguenots
May 14, 1625-1640, English Discover and Colonize Barbados
July, 1625-August, 1664, Founding of New Amsterdam
October, 1625-1637, Dutch and Portuguese Struggle for the Guinea Coast
1626-1673, Civil War Ravages Vietnam
May 6, 1626, Algonquians “Sell” Manhattan Island
April 27, 1627, Company of New France Is Chartered
May 6-June 7, 1628, Petition of Right
1629, Safavid Dynasty Flourishes Under cAbbäs the Great
March, 1629-1640, “Personal Rule” of Charles I
March 6, 1629, Edict of Restitution
1630’s
1630’s-1694, Slaves Resist Europeans at Palmares
1630-1648, Destruction of Bavaria
1630-1660’s, Dutch Wars in Brazil
May, 1630-1643, Great Puritan Migration
November 10, 1630, The Day of Dupes
1631-1645, Li Zicheng’s Revolt
February 24, 1631, Women First Appear on the English Stage
1632, Galileo Publishes Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican
1632-c. 1650, Shah Jahan Builds the Taj Mahal
1632-1667, Polish-Russian Wars for the Ukraine
February 22-27, 1632, Zuni Rebellion
Fall, 1632-January 5, 1665, Settlement of Connecticut
September 2, 1633, Great Fire of Constantinople and Murad’s Reforms
May 30, 1635, Peace of Prague
June, 1636, Rhode Island Is Founded
July 20, 1636-July 28, 1637, Pequot War
1637, Descartes Publishes His Discourse on Method
October, 1637-April 15, 1638, Shimabara Revolt
1638, First Printing Press in North America
1638, Waning of the Devshirme System
1638-1639, Urga Becomes the Seat of the Living Buddha
1638-1669, Spread of Jansenism
1639-1640, British East India Company Establishes Fort Saint George
March-June, 1639, First Bishops’War
December, 1639, Russians Reach the Pacific Ocean
1640’s
1640, Foundation of the Darfur Sultanate
1640-1688, Reign of Frederick William, the Great Elector
May, 1640-January 23, 1641, Revolt of the Catalans
June-August, 1640, Bandeirantes Expel the Jesuits
November 3, 1640-May 15, 1641, Beginning of England’s Long Parliament
January 14, 1641, Capture of Malacca
August 26, 1641-September, 1648, Conquest of Luanda
October 23, 1641-1642, Ulster Insurrection
November, 1641, Massachusetts Recognizes Slavery
1642 and 1644, Tasman Proves Australia Is a Separate Continent
1642-1651, English Civil Wars
1642-1666, Reign of Shah cAbbäs II
1642-1684, B eaver Wars
1642-1700, Westward Migration of Native Americans
May, 1642, Founding of Montreal
September 2, 1642, Closing of the Theaters
1643, Torricelli Measures Atmospheric Pressure
July, 1643-October 24, 1648, Peace of Westphalia
August 17-September 25, 1643, Solemn League and Covenant
September 8, 1643, Confederation of the United Colonies of New England
1644-1671, Ndongo Wars
April 25, 1644, End of the Ming Dynasty
June 6, 1644, Manchus Take Beijing
July 2, 1644, Battle of Marston Moor
1645-1683, Zheng Pirates Raid the Chinese Coast
Spring, 1645-1660, Puritan New Model Army
August 22, 1645-September, 1669, Turks Conquer Crete
1646-1649, Levellers Launch an Egalitarian Movement
1648, Cult of the Virgin of Guadalupe
June, 1648, Wars of the Fronde Begin
December 6, 1648-May 19, 1649, Establishment of the English Commonwealth
January 29, 1649, Codification of Russian Serfdom
April 21, 1649, Maryland Act of Toleration
1650’s
Mid-17th century, Dutch School of Painting Flourishes
Mid-17th century, Emergence of the Guinea Coast States
1650-1698, Wars for the Red Sea Trade
March 31, 1650, Earthquake Destroys Cuzco
May 30-31, 1650, First College in North America
1651, Hobbes Publishes Leviathan
1651-1652, Edo Rebellions
1651-1680, letsuna Shogunate
October, 1651-May, 1652, Navigation Act Leads to Anglo-Dutch Wars
Volume 2. 1652-1700
Keyword List of Contents
List of Maps, Tables, and Sidebars
Maps of the Seventeenth Century
1650’s (continued)
1652-1667, Patriarch Nikon’s Reforms
1652-1689, Fox Organizes the Quakers
April, 1652, Dutch Begin to Colonize Southern Africa
December 16, 1653-September 3, 1658, Cromwell Rules England as Lord Protector
1654, Pascal and Fermat Devise the Theory of Probability
1654, Portugal Retakes Control of Brazil
Summer, 1654-1656, First Jewish Settlers in North America
1655-1663, Grimaldi Discovers Diffraction
March 12-14, 1655, Penruddock’s Uprising
May 10, 1655, English Capture of Jamaica
July 10, 1655-June 21, 1661, First Northern War
1656, Popularization of Chocolate
1656-1662, Persecution of Iranian Jews
1656-1667, Construction of the Piazza San Pietro
1656-1676, Ottoman Empire’s Brief Recovery
February, 1656, Huygens Identifies Saturn’s Rings
1657, Work Begins on Japan’s National History
January 18-20, 1657, Meireki Fire Ravages Edo
Beginning 1658, First Newspaper Ads Appear
1658-1707, Reign of Aurangzeb
August, 1658-August 24, 1660, Explorations of Radisson and Chouart des Groseilliers
1659, Expansion of the Alawis
May, 1659-May, 1660, Restoration of Charles Π
November 7, 1659, Treaty of the Pyrenees
1660’s
1660’s-1700, First Microscopic Observations
1660-1677, A Jihad Is Called in Senegambia
1660-1692, Boyle’s Law and the Birth of Modem Chemistry
September 13, 1660-July 27, 1663, British Navigation Acts
1661, Absolute Monarchy Emerges in France
1661-1665, Clarendon Code
1661-1672, Colbert Develops Mercantilism
February 17, 1661-December 20, 1722, Height of Qing Dynasty
March, 1661-1705, Virginia Slave Codes
June 23, 1661, Portugal Cedes Bombay to the English
1662, Half-Way Covenant
1662-May 3, 1695, England’s Licensing Acts
March 18, 1662, Public Transportation Begins
May 19, 1662, England’s Act of Uniformity
March 24, 1663-July 25, 1729, Settlement of the Carolinas
1664, Molière Writes Tartuffe
1664, Willis Identifies the Basal Ganglia
March 22, 1664-July 21, 1667, British Conquest of New Netherland
July 13, 1664, Trappist Order Is Founded
1665, Cassini Discovers Jupiter’s Great Red Spot
1665-1681, Construction of the Languedoc Canal
January, 1665, Shabbetai Tzevi’s Messianic Movement Begins
March 4, 1665-July 31, 1667, Second Anglo-Dutch War
Spring, 1665-Fall, 1666, Great Plague in London
October 29, 1665, Battle of Mbwila
c. 1666, Stradivari Makes His First Violin
c. 1666-1676, Founding of the Maräthä Kingdom
September 2-5, 1666, Great Fire of London
1667, Consecration of the First Cathedral in Mexico
1667, Milton Publishes Paradise Lost
1667, Pufendorf Advocates a Unified Germany
April, 1667-June, 1671, Razin Leads Peasant Uprising in Russia
May 24, 1667-May 2, 1668, War of Devolution
December 19, 1667, Impeachment of Clarendon
January 23, 1668, Triple Alliance Forms
February 13, 1668, Spain Recognizes Portugal’s Independence
1669, Steno Presents His Theories of Fossils and Dynamic Geology
February, 1669-January, 1677, John of Austria’s Revolts
1670’s
c. 1670, First Widespread Smallpox Inoculations
1670, Popularization of the Grand Tour
1670, Promulgation of the Sacred Edict
1670-1699, Rise of the Asante Empire
April, 1670, Charles Town Is Founded
May 2, 1670, Hudson’s Bay Company Is Chartered
Beginning 1671, American Indian Slave Trade
Late December, 1671, Newton Builds His Reflecting Telescope
1672-1684, Leeuwenhoek Discovers Microscopic Life
1672-c. 1691, Self-Immolation of the Old Believers
April 6, 1672-August 10, 1678, French-Dutch War
Summer, 1672-Fall, 1676, Ottoman-Polish Wars
c. 1673, Buxtehude Begins His Abendmusiken Concerts
Beginning 1673, French Explore the Mississippi Valley
1673, Huygens Explains the Pendulum
1673, Renovation of the Louvre
1673-1678, Test Acts
December, 1673-1681, Rebellion of the Three Feudatories
Late 17th century, Decline of Benin
Late 17th century, Rise of Buganda
Late 17th century, Sulawesi Traders Make Contact with Australian Aborigines
1675-1708, Wren Supervises the Rebuilding of St. Paul’s Cathedral
June 20, 1675, Metacom’s War Begins
1676, Sydenham Advocates Clinical Observation
May 10-October 18, 1676, Bacon’s Rebellion
December 7, 1676, R0mer Calculates the Speed of Light
1677-1681, Ottoman-Muscovite Wars
February 18, 1678, Bunyan’s The Pilgrim's Progress Appears
August 10, 1678-September 26, 1679, Treaties of Nijmegen
August 13, 1678-July 1, 1681, The Popish Plot
December, 1678-March 19, 1687, La Salle’s Expeditions
1679, Habeas Corpus Act
1679-1709, Räjput Rebellion
1680’s
Beginning 1680’s, Guerra dos Barbaros
1680-1709, Reign of Tsunayoshi as Shogun
June 30, 1680, Spanish Inquisition Holds a Grandiose Auto-da-fe
August 10, 1680, Pueblo Revolt
March 4, 1681, “Holy Experiment” Establishes Pennsylvania
Beginning c. 1682, Decline of the Solomonid Dynasty
1682, French Court Moves to Versailles
August, 1682-November, 1683, Rye House Plot
July 14-September 12, 1683, Defeat of the Ottomans at Vienna
1684-1699, Holy League Ends Ottoman Rule of the Danubian Basin
1685, Louis XIV Revokes the Edict of Nantes
1686, Halley Develops the First Weather Map
June, 1686-April, 1689, Dominion of New England Forms
Beginning 1687, Decline of the Ottoman Empire
April 4, 1687, and April 27, 1688, Declaration of Liberty of Conscience
Summer, 1687, Newton Formulates the Theory of Universal Gravitation
1688-1702, Reign of William and Mary
1688-1704, Genroku Era
November, 1688-February, 1689, The Glorious Revolution
Beginning 1689, Reforms of Peter the Great
1689-1694, Famine and Inflation in France
1689-1697, Wars of the League of Augsburg
February 13, 1689, Declaration of Rights
April 18-July 31, 1689, Siege of Londonderry
May 24, 1689, Toleration Act
August 29, 1689, Treaty of Nerchinsk Draws Russian-Chinese Border
1690’s
Early 1690’s, Brazilian Gold Rush
Beginning 1690’s, Movement to Reform Manners
c. 1690, Extinction of the Dodo Bird
1690, Locke Publishes Two Treatises of Government
June 2, 1692-May, 1693, Salem Witchcraft Trials
June 8, 1692, Com Riots in Mexico City
1693, Ray Argues for Animal Consciousness
July 27, 1694, Bank of England Is Chartered
May 3, 1695, End of Press Censorship in England
1697-1702, Köprülü Reforms of Hüseyin Pasa
March 9, 1697-August 25, 1698, Peter the Great Tours Western Europe
September 20, 1697, Treaty of Ryswick
July 25, 1698, Savery Patents the First Successful Steam Engine
October 11, 1698, and March 25, 1700, First and Second Treaties of Partition
1699, British Establish Trading Post in Canton
January 26, 1699, Treaty of Karlowitz
March 30, 1699, Singh Founds the Khalsa Brotherhood
May 1, 1699, French Found the Louisiana Colony
November 30, 1700, Battle of Narva
Appendices
Time Line
Glossary
Bibliography
Electronic Resources
Chronological List of Entries
Geographical Index
Category Index
Indexes
Personages Index
Subject Index