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Publisher's Note
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Maps
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-{Ssubdot}afavid 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 I
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 Jel{amacr}l{imacr} 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
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 {Omacr}saka Castle
January 27, 1614
Japanese Ban Christian Missionaries
Beginning c. 1615
Coffee Culture Flourishes
1615
Guam n Poma Pleas for Inca Reforms
1615
Promulgation of the Buke shohatto and Kinch{umacr} 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
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 II'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
{Ssubdot}afavid Dynasty Flourishes Under {ayn}Abb{amacr}s the Great
March, 1629-1640
"Personal Rule" of Charles I
March 6, 1629
Edict of Restitution
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
Zuñi 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
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 {ayn}Abb{amacr}s II
1642-1684
Beaver 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
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
Ietsuna Shogunate
October, 1651-May, 1652
Navigation Act Leads to Anglo-Dutch Wars
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
Popularizaiton 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 II
November 7, 1659
Treaty of the Pyrenees
1660's-1700
First Microscopic Observations
1660-1677
A Jihad Is Called in Senegambia
1660-1692
Boyle's Law and the Birth of Modern 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 Mar{amacr}th{amacr} 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
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
Third Anglo-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
R mer 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
R{amacr}jput Rebellion
Beginning 1680's
Guerra dos B rboros
1680-1709
Reign of Tsunayoshi as Shogun
June 30, 1680
Spanish Inquisition Holds a Grandiose Auto-da-fé
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
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
Corn 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 Pa{scedil}a
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
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Bibliography
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Chronological List of Entries
Geographical Index
Category Index
Indexes
Personages Index
Subject Index
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Seventeenth century.