1600s
1601: Battle of Kinsale, the most important battle in Irish history, fought.
1602: Dutch East India Company founded. Its success contributes to the Dutch Golden Age.
1603: Elizabeth I of England dies and is succeeded by her cousin King James VI of Scotland, uniting the crowns of Scotland and England.
1603: Tokugawa Ieyasu seizes control of Japan and establishes the Tokugawa Shogunate which rules the country until 1868.
1603-23: After modernizing his army, Abbas I expands Persia by capturing territory from the Ottomans and the Portuguese.
1605: Gunpowder Plot foiled in England.
1607: The London Company establishes the Jamestown Settlement in North America precipitating the British colonization of the Americas.
1608: Quebec City founded by Samuel de Champlain in New France (present-day Canada).
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1610s
1611: The King James Version of the Bible is completed.
1613: The Time of Troubles in Russia ends with the establishment of the House of Romanov which rules until 1917.
1615: The Mughal Empire grants extensive trading rights to the British East India Company.
1618-48: The Thirty Years' War devastates Central Europe.
1624-42: As chief minister, Cardinal Richelieu centralizes power in France.
1625: New Amsterdam founded by the Dutch West India Company in North America.
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1630s
1637: The Dutch tulip mania bubble bursts.
1637: The Pequot War, the first of the American Indian Wars
1639-51: Wars of the Three Kingdoms, civil wars throughout Scotland, Ireland, and England.
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1640s
1640: Portugal regains its independence from Spain bringing an end to the Iberian Union.
1640: Torture is outlawed in England.
1641: The Tokugawa Shogunate institutes Sakoku- foreigners are expelled and no one is allowed to enter or leave Japan.
1642: Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman achieves the first recorded European sighting of New Zealand.
1644: The Manchu conquer China ending the Ming Dynasty. The subsequent Qing Dynasty rules until 1912.
1648: The Peace of Westphalia ends the Thirty Years' War and the Eighty Years' War and marks the ends of Spain and the Holy Roman Empire as major European powers.
1648-53: Fronde civil war in France.
1648-67: The Deluge wars leave Poland in ruins.
1648-69: The Ottoman Empire captures Crete from the Venetians after the Siege of Candia.
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1650s
1652: Cape Town founded by the Dutch East India Company in South Africa.
1652: Anglo-Dutch Wars begin.
1655-61: The Northern Wars cement Sweden's rise as a Great Power.
1656: Velázquez paints Las Meninas
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1660s
1660: The Commonwealth of England ends and the monarchy is brought back during the English Restoration.
1660: Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge founded.
1661: The reign of the Kangxi Emperor of China begins.
1662: Koxinga captures Taiwan from the Dutch and founds the Kingdom of Tungning which rules until 1683.
1663: France takes full political and military control over its colonial possessions in New France.
1664: British troops capture New Amsterdam and rename it New York.
1665: Portugal defeats the Kongo Empire.
1666: The Great Fire of London.
1667-99: The Great Turkish War halts the Ottoman Empire's expansion into Europe.
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1670s
1670: The Hudson's Bay Company is founded in Canada.
1672-78: Franco-Dutch War
1674: Maratha Empire founded in India by Shivaji.
1676: Russia and the Ottoman Empire commence the Russo-Turkish Wars.
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1680s
1682: Peter the Great becomes joint ruler of Russia (sole tsar in 1696).
1682: La Salle explores the length of the Mississippi River and claims Louisiana for France.
1683: China conquers the Kingdom of Tungning and annexes Taiwan.
1685: Edict of Fontainebleau outlaws Protestantism in France.
1687: Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
1688-89: After the Glorious Revolution, England becomes a constitutional monarchy and the Dutch Republic goes into decline.
1688-97: The Grand Alliance sought to stop French expansion during the Nine Years War.
1689: Nerchinsk Treaty establishes a border between Russia and China.
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1690s
1692: Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.
1700-21: Russia supplants Sweden as the dominant Baltic power after the Great Northern War.
You asked about math and science advances:
Inventions, discoveries, introductions
List of 17th century inventions
Major changes in philosophy and science take place, often characterized as the Scientific revolution.
First measurement of the speed of light, 1676.
Banknotes were reintroduced in Europe.
Ice cream
Tea and coffee become popular in Europe.
Central Banking in France and modern Finance by Scottish economist John Law.
1609: Johann Carolas of Germany published the 'Relation', the first newspaper
1610: The Orion Nebula was identified by Nicolas de Peiresc of France
c. 1612: The first flintlock musket was likely created for Louis XIII of France by gunsmith Marin de Bourgeoys
1620: Funded by James I of England, Cornelius Drebbei built the first 'submarine' made of wood and greased leather
1623: The first English dictonary, 'English Dictionarie' was published by Henry Cockeram, listing difficult words with definitions
1642: Mezzotint engraving introduced grey tones to printed images
1643: Evangelista Torricelli of Italy invented the mercury Barometer
1645: Giacomo Torelli of Venice, Italy invented the first rotating stage
1657: Christiaan Huygens developed the first functional pendulum clock based on the learnings of Galileo Galilei
1663: The first reflecting telescope was built by James Gregory based on suggestions of Italian astronomer Niccolo Zucchi
c. 1670: Monk Dom Perignon discovered Champagne in France
1676: Antoni van Leeuwenhoek fist discovered Bacteria
1679: Binary system developed by Gottfried Leibnitz, possibly influenced by Shao Yung
1684: Calculus independently developed by both Gottfried Leibnitz and Sir Issac Newton and used to formulate classical mechanics.
2006-10-22 08:44:54
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Maths advances? Here's one:
Isaac Newton invented calculus in the late 1600s.
2006-10-22 08:49:41
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answered by mmhmmm 2
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Salem Witch Trials in Salem, Massachusetts in the early 1600s
2006-10-22 08:37:33
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answered by nido_tr3s 5
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2016-09-01 00:56:12
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