Anatine
Timeline of the 17th Century

 
Anatine Home Reference Desk News Desk Map of Website
History Reference Desk Science Reference Desk Arts Reference Desk Literature Reference Desk
Timeline of World History
 
Writers
and Their Works
   		 Timeline of
Music
  		 Ancient
Timeline
  		 Timeline of the
Dark Ages
 		 Medieval
Timeline
 
Timeline of the
20th Century
  		 Timeline of the
19th Century
  		 Timeline of the
18th Century
  		 Timeline of the
17th Century
  		 Timeline of the
16th Century
  
Timeline of the
15th Century
 		 Timeline of the
14th Century
 		 Timeline of the
13th Century
 		 Timeline of the
12th Century
 		 Timeline of the
11th Century
 
 
Colour Key :

 
Abbreviations:
b.  born
d.  died
fl.  flourished
r.  ruled/reigned
c.  circa (approximately)
St.  Saint
BC  before Christ
AD  Anno Domini ('in the year of our Lord' - after the birth of Christ)
UK   United Kingdom
EEC   European Economic Community
NATO   North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
UN   United Nations
USA/US   United States of America
USSR   Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Prominent People
English Monarchs
Popes
Rulers
Events and Eras
Cultural Achievements,
Inventions and Discoveries
 

1700

 Northern War (1700 - 1721)

Pope Clement XI (r.1700 - 1721)

Treaty of Karlowitz (1699)



Royal Board of Trade established (1696)

Window tax introduced in England (1695)

Bank of Scotland founded (1695)

William III (r.1694 - 1702)

Bank of England founded (1694)

Massacre of Glencoe (1692)

Salem witch trials (1692)

Port Royal, Jamaica, destroyed by earthquake (1692)

Pope Innocent XII (r.1691 - 1700)

Battle of the Boyne (1690)

Advocates' Library in Edinburgh founded (1789)

Peter I 'the Great', Tsar of Russia (r.1689 - 1725)

William and Mary (r.1689 - 1694)

Pope Alexander VIII (r.1689 - 1691)

James Edward Stuart 'the Old Pretender' (1688 - 1766)

Glorious Revolution (1688)


Bloody Assizes (1685)

Monmouth's rebellion (1685)

James II (r.1685 - 1688)




Pennsylvania founded (1682)

Peter I and Ivan V, Tsars of Russia (r.1682 - 1696)

Last dodo killed (1681)

Vitus Bering (1680 - 1741)

Popish Plot (1678)


Theodore III, Tsar of Russia (r.1676 - 1682)

Pope Innocent XI (r.1676 - 1689)






3rd Anglo-Dutch War (1672 - 1674)

Peter the Great of Russia (1672 - 1725)


Fall of Mali Empire (1670)

Hudson Bay Company founded (1670)

Pope Clement X (r.1670 - 1676)

End of Hanseatic League (1669)

Pope Clement IX (r.1667 - 1670)


Start of Alawi Dynasty in Morocco (1666)

Fire of London (1666)

Plague in England (1665)

2nd Anglo-Dutch War (1665 - 1667)

Royal African Company founded (1663)

Charles II (r.1660 - 1685)









Pope Alexander VII (r.1655 - 1667)

British capture Jamaica (1655)


Cape Town founded (1652)

Act of Settlement (1652)

1st Anglo-Dutch War (1652 - 1654)






Commonwealth (1649 - 1660)

Diggers active (1649 - 1650)



Levellers active (1647 - 1649)


Battle of Naseby (1645)

Alexis, Tsar of Russia (r.1645 - 1676)

Start of Chinese Ching Dynasty (1644)

Pope Innocent X (r.1644 - 1655)

New England Confederation (1643)

Louis XIV, King of France (r.1643 - 1715)

English Civil War (1642 - 1649)

1st meeting of the Long Parliament (1640)


Ottomans capture Baghdad (1638)























Boston, Massachusetts founded (1630)







New Amsterdam founded (1626)

Charles I (r.1625 - 1649)



Pope Urban VIII (r.1623 - 1644)


Pope Gregory XV (r.1621 - 1623)



Gold Coast slave trade (1620 - 1701)

Battle of the White Mountain (1620)

Mayflower sails to America (1620)

Thirty Years War (1618 - 1648)

Hussite Revolt (1618)

Michael Romanov, Tsar of Russia (r.1613 - 1645)

Louis XIII, King of France (r.1610 - 1643)

Plantation of Ulster (1609)

Quebec founded (1608)

Jamestown founded (1607)

Tahiti discovered (1607)

Basil IV, Tsar of Russia (r.1606 - 1610)

Gunpowder Plot (1605)

Dimitri III, Tsar of Russia (r.1605 - 1606)

Theodore II, Tsar of Russia (r.1605)

Pope Paul V (r.1605 - 1621)

Pope Leo XI (r.1605)

Tomsk founded (1604)

Unification of England and Scotland (1603)

James I (r.1603 - 1625)

 




William Hogarth (1697 - 1764)

Antonio Canaletto (1697 - 1768)



Richard Boyle Burlington (1695 - 1753)



Voltaire (1694 - 1778)

James Bradley (1693 - 1762)












Samuel Richardson (1689 - 1761)

Montesquieu (1689 - 1755)






Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)




Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686 - 1736)

John Gay (1685 - 1732)

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750)

Georg Friedrich Handel (1685 - 1759)

George Berkeley (1685 - 1753)

Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684 - 1721)




Georg Philipp Telemann (1681 - 1767)




Antonio Vivaldi (1678 - 1741)

Abraham Darby (1677 - 1717)

Alexander Selkirk (1676 - 1721)


Nicholas Rowe (1674 - 1718)

Charles 'Turnip' Townshend (1674 - 1738)

Jethro Tull (1674 - 1741)

Richard Steele (1672 - 1729)

Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)

Rob Roy (1671 - 1734)

William Congreve (1670 - 1729)






Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)

Johann Christoph Pepusch (1667 - 1752)








Thomas Newcomen (1663 - 1729)


Daniel Defoe (1660 - 1731)

Hans Sloane (1660 - 1753)

Alessandro Scarlatti (1660 - 1725)

Henry Purcell (1659 - 1695)


Edmund Halley (1656 - 1742)



Johann Pachelbel (1653 - 1706)




Francois Fénelon (1651 - 1715)

Nell Gwyn (1651 - 1687)

Thomas Savery (c.1650 - 1715)

Titus Oates (1649 - 1705)

Robert Barclay (1648 - 1690)

Grinling Gibbons (1648 - 1721)

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646 - 1716)

William 'Captain' Kidd (c.1645 - 1701)

Antonio Stradivari (1644 - 1737)

William Penn (1644 - 1718)







Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727)

Aphra Behn (1640 - 1689)

Jean Racine (1639 - 1699)

Nicholas Malebranche (1638 - 1715)

Meindert Hobbema (1638 - 1709)

Robert Hooke (1635 - 1703)

Henry Morgan (c.1635 - 1688)

George Etherege (c.1635 - 1691)

Samuel Pepys (1633 - 1703)

Luca Giordano (1632 - 1705)

Benedict Spinoza (1632 - 1677)

Jan Vermeer (1632 - 1675)

Anton van Leeuwenhoek (1632 - 1723)

John Locke (1632 - 1704)

Christopher Wren (1632 - 1723)

John Dryden (1631 - 1700)

Christiaan Huygens (1629 - 1693)

Charles Perrault (1628 - 1703)

John Bunyan (1628 - 1688)

Robert Boyle (1627 - 1691)

Jan Steen (1626 - 1679)

Paul Potter (1625 - 1654)

George Fox (1624 - 1691)

Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)

Moliere (1622 - 1673)

Henry Vaughan (1622 - 1695)

Jean de La Fontaine (1621 - 1695)

Albert Cuyp (1620 - 1691)


Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac (1619 - 1655)




John Lilburne (c.1614 - 1657)






Gerrard Winstanley (c.1609 - 1660)

John Milton (1608 - 1674)





Rembrandt van Rijn (1606 - 1669)














Abel Tasman (1603 - 1659)



Alonso Cano (1601 - 1667)

Pierre de Fermat (1601 - 1665)

 

 Pianoforte invented (c.1700)



1st Eddystone lighthouse built (1699)




Steam pump invented (1696)































Chatsworth built (1687 - 1707)













Belton House built (1684)

Ragley Hall built (1680)

Leibniz develops binary arithmetic (1679)



Royal Greenwich Observatory founded (1675)

St. Paul's, London, built (1675)

Integral calculus devised by Leibniz (1675)



















Differential calculus devised by Newton (1666)

























1st coffee house in London opened (1652)




1st chemistry laboratory built at Leiden University (1650)



Society of Friends (Quakers) founded (1648)

















Barometer invented (1642)








Harvard University founded (1636)

Postal service begins in Britain (1635)



Covent Garden Market in London opened (1634)

Taj Mahal built (1632)

1st observatory built in Leiden (1632)






























Oxford University Botanic Gardens founded (1621)

Submarine invented (1620)






Slide rule invented (1615)

Logarithms developed (1614)


King James Version of Bible published (1611)

Tea introduced to Europe (c.1610)


Telescope invented (1608)


Hatfield House built (1607 - 1611)




















Bodlean Library founded (1602)

 
1601
 
Anatine Home Reference Desk News Desk Map of Website
History Reference Desk Science Reference Desk Arts Reference Desk Literature Reference Desk

Published by Anatine.  © Copyright Anatine, 2002.  All rights reserved.


About Us Contact Us

www.anatine.co.uk/c17.htm