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Chronology
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Seventeenth
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Louis XIV |
| 1576-1612 | Reign of Emperor Rudolf II |
| 1589-1610 | Reign of Henry IV of France |
| 1598 13 April |
Edict of Nantes. |
| 1598 2 May |
Treaty of Vervins. |
| 1598 13 September |
Death of Philip II of Spain |
| 1598-1621 | Reign of Philip III of Spain |
| 1600 | Formation of the English East India Company |
| 1602 | Formation of the Dutch East India Company |
| 1604-1613 | Time of Troubles in Russia |
| 1605 | Publication of Cervantes' Don Quixote. |
| 1607 | Suppression of Protestantism in Donauworth. |
| 1608 | Formation of the Protesant Union |
| 1609 | Letter of Majesty issued for Bohemia |
| 1609 | Formation of the Catholic League |
| 1609 | Expulsion of the Moriscos |
| 1609 | Johannes Kepler publishes his laws of planetary motion |
| 1610 14 May |
Assassination of Henry IV |
| 1610 | Galileo Galilei uses publishes the results of his astronomical observations using a telescope. |
| 1618-1648 | Thirty Years War |
| 1618-1625 | Bohemian Phase of the Thirty Years War |
| 1619-1637 | Reign of Emperor Ferdinand II of Austria |
| 1619-1642 | Ministry of Cardinal Richelieu |
| 1620 8 November |
Battle of White Mountain |
| 1621-1665 | Reign of Philip IV of Spain |
| 1621-1665 | Twelve Years Truce between Spain and the Dutch Rebels |
| 1625-1629 | Danish Phase of the Thirty Years War |
| 1625 5 June |
Capture of Breda by Spinola's Spanish army |
| 1626 24-27 August |
Battle of Lutter |
| 1627-1628 | Siege of La Rochelle, surrendered on 28 October |
| 1628 | William Harvey discovers the circulation of the blood |
| 1629 28 March |
Edict of Restitution |
| 1630-1634 | Swedish Phase of the Thirty Years War |
| 1630 4 July |
Gustavus Adolphus lands in Germany |
| 1630 11 November |
The Day of the Dupes |
| 1631 13 Apr. |
Sack of Magdeburg |
| 631 17 Sept. |
Battle of Breitenfeld |
| 1632 15-16 April |
Battle of the River Lech |
| 1632 31 Aug-4 Sept |
Battle of Alte Veste |
| 1632 30 October |
Conspiracy of Gaston and the Duke of Montmorency |
| 1632 16 November |
Battle of Lutzen, death of Gustavus Adolphus |
| 1632 |
Galileo publishes his Two World Systems |
| 1633 March-April |
Establishment of the Heilbronn League |
| 1634-1648 | French Phase of the Thirty Years War |
| 1634 24 February |
Fall and death of Wallenstein |
| 1634 6 September |
Battle of Nordlingen |
| 1634 1 November |
Treaty of Paris |
| 1635 | Establishment of the Academie Francaise |
| 1635 30 April |
Treaty of Compiegne |
| 1635 21 May |
France declares war on Spain |
| 1635 30 May |
Peace of Prague |
| 1636 | Rebellion of the Croquants in France |
| 1637-1657 | Reign of Emperor Ferdinand III of Austria |
| 1637 | Rene Descartes publishes Discourse on Method |
| 1637 15 February |
Death of Ferdinand II |
| 1637 10 October |
Dutch recapture Breda |
| 1639 | Rebellion of the Nu-Pieds in France |
| 1639 21 October |
Battle of the Downs |
| 1640-1659 | Revolt of the Catalans |
| 1640-1668 | Revolt of Portugal |
| 1640-1688 | Reign of Frederick William the Great Elector of Brandenburg |
| 1641 | Conspiracy of Cinq-Mars |
| 1642 2 November |
Second Battle of Breitenfeld |
| 1642 4 December |
Death of Richelieu |
| 1643 14 May |
Death of Louis XIII |
| 1643 19 May |
Battle of Rocroi |
| 1643-1661 | Ministry of Cardinal Mazarin |
| 1643-1715 | Reign of Louis XIV |
| 1648 | Peace of Westphalia |
| 1648-1653 | Revolts of the Fronde |
| 1650 | Coffee introduced into England by this date |
| 1652-1654 | First Anglo-Dutch War |
| 1654 | Abdication of Queen Christina of Sweden |
| 1655-1660 | First Northern War |
| 1656-1661 | Mohammed Kuprulu serves as Grand Vizier of Ottomans |
| 1657 | Founding of the Accademia del Cimento |
| 1658-1705 | Reign of Emperor Leopold I of Austria |
| 1658 14 June |
Battle of the Dunes |
| 1659 7 November |
Treaty of the Pyrenees |
| 1661-1678 | Ahmed Kuprulu serves as Grand Vizier of the Ottomans |
| 1661 | Death of Mazarin |
| 1662 | Charles II charters the Royal Society of London |
| 1664 1 August |
Battle of St. Gotthard |
| 1665-1700 | Reign of Charles II of Spain |
| 1665-1667 | Second Anglo-Dutch War |
| 1666 | Foundation of the Academie Royale des Sciences |
| 1667-1668 | War of Devolution |
| 1669 | Blaise Pascal publishes Pensees |
| 1669 | Isaac Newton discovers calculus |
| 1670-1671 | Revolt of Stenka Razin in Russia |
| 1672-1678 | Louis XIV's War with Holland |
| 1672-1674 | Third Anglo-Dutch War |
| 1675 28 June |
Battle of Fehrbellin |
| 1678-1683 | Kara Mustafa as Grand Vizier of the Ottomans |
| 1680-1683 | Chambers of Reunion |
| 1682-1699 | Austro-Turkish War |
| 1683 17 July-12 Sept. |
Siege of Vienna |
| 1685 18 October |
Revocation of the Edict of Nantes |
| 1686 9 July |
Formation of the League of Augsburg |
| 1687 | Isaac Newton publishes Principia Mathematica |
| 1688-1697 | War of the League of Augsburg or the Grand Alliance |
| 1688-1714 | Reign of Frederick I of Prussia (as elector from 1688-1701 and king from 1701-1714) |
| 1688 Nov.-Dec. |
Glorious Revolution in England |
| 1689-1691 | Mustafa Kuprulu as Grand Vizier of the Ottomans |
| 1689-1702 | Reign of William and Mary of England (Mary dies in 1694) |
| 1689-1725 | Reign of Peter the Great of Russia |
| 1690 1 July |
Battle of Fleurus |
| 1690 10 July |
Battle of Beachy Head |
| 1691 19 August |
Battle of Slankamen |
| 1691 11 July |
Battle of the Boyne |
| 1692 29 May-3 June |
Battle of LaHogue |
| 1693 30 June |
Battle of Lagos |
| 1693 29 July |
Battle of Neerwinden |
| 1695-1697 | Pierre Bayle publishes his Historical and Critical Dictionary |
| 1697-1698 | Peter the Great's tour of western Europe |
| 1697-1718 | Reign of Charles XII of Sweden |
| 1697 11 September |
Battle of Zenta |
| 1697 20 Sept-30 Oct. |
Treaty of Ryswick |
| 1698 11 October |
First Treaty of Partition |
| 1698 26 January |
Treaty of Karlowitz |
| 1700-1721 | Great Northern War |
| 1700 | Foundation of the Berlin Academy |
| 1700 13 March |
Second Treaty of Partition |
| 1700 3 Ocober |
Charles II of Spain names Philip of Anjou as his heir |
| 1700 1 November |
Death of Charles II of Spain |
| 1700 30 November |
Battle of Narva |
| 1701-1714 | War of the Spanish Succession |
| 1702-1714 | Reign of Queen Anne of England |
| 1703 | Peter the Great founds St. Petersburg |
| 27 December | Methuen Treaty of trade between Britain and Portugal |
| 1704 4 August |
British capture of Gibraltar |
| 1704 13 August |
Battle of Blenheim |
| 1705-1711 | Reign of Emperor Joseph I of Austria |
| 1705 | Edmund Halley discovers Halley's Comet |
| 1706 23 May |
Battle of Ramillies |
| 1706 7 September |
Battle of Turin |
| 1708 11 July |
Battle of Oudenarde |
| 1709 8 July |
Battle of Poltava |
| 1709 11 September |
Battle of Malpalquet |
| 1711-1740 | Reign of Emperor Charles VI of Austria |
| 1711 | Death of Emperor Joseph I |
| 1712 24 July |
Battle of Denain |
| 1713-1740 | Reign of Frederick William I of Prussia |
| 1713 | Emperor Charles VI first reveals the Pragmatic Sanction and works on it the rest of his life. |
| 1713 11 April |
Treaty of Utrecht |
| 1714-1718 | Ottoman War with Venice and Austria |
| 1714-1727 | Reign of George I of England |
| 1714 Mar.-Sept. |
Treaty of Rastatt and Baden |
| 1715-1774 | Reign of Louis XV |
| 1716 5 August |
Battle of Peterwardein |
| 1718 21 July |
Treaty of Passarowitz |
| 1720 | Mississippi Bubble in France |
| 1720 | South Sea Bubble in England |
| 1721 | Montesquieu publishes Persian Letters |
| 1721 30 August |
Treaty of Nystadt |
| 1725 | Publication of Vico's New Science |
| 1725 | Foundation of the Academy of Sciences at St. Petersburg by Peter the Great |
| 1725 | Publication of John Flamsteed's Catalog of the Stars |
| 1726-1743 | Administration of Fleury |
| 1727-1760 | Reign of George II of England |
| 1733-1735 | War of the Polish Succession |
| 1734 | Publication of Voltaire's Letters on the English |
| 1739-1741 | War of Jenkins' Ear |
| 1739 | Publication of David Hume's Treatise on Human Nature |
| 1739 21 July |
Treaty of Belgrade |
| 1740-1786 | Reign of Frederick II the Great of Prussia |
| 1740-1780 | Reign of Maria Theresa of Austria |
| 1740-1748 | War of the Austrian Succession |
| 1741-1762 | Reign of Empress Elizabeth of Russia |
| 1741 10 April |
Battle of Mollwitz |
| 1743 27 June |
Battle of Dettingen |
| 1745-1764 | Era of Madame de Pompadour's influence in France |
| 1745 11 May |
Battle of Fontenoy |
| 1748 | Montesquieu publishes Spirit of the Laws |
| 1748 October |
Treaty of Aix-le-Chapelle |
| 1749 | Publication of the Comte de Buffon's Natural History |
| 1751-1772 | Publication of the Encyclopedie by Diderot and d'Alembert |
| 1751-1754 | Benjamin Franklin's experiments with electricity |
| 1751 | Publication of Voltaire's Age of Louis XIV |
| 1755 1 November |
Great earthquake at Lisbon |
| 1756-1763 | Seven Years War |
| 1756 May |
Diplomatic Revolution makes allies of Austria and France |
| 1757 18 June |
Battle of Kolin |
| 1757 26 July |
Battle of Hastenbeck |
| 1757 30 July |
Battle of Grossjagerdorf |
| 1757 5 November |
Battle of Rossbach |
| 1757 5 December |
Battle of Leuthen |
| 1758 | Carl Linnaeus introduces the binomial nomenclature for classifying plants and animals |
| 1758 25 August |
Battle of Zorndorf |
| 1758 14 October |
Battle of Hochkirch |
| 1759 | Voltaire publishes Candide |
| 1759 1 May |
Battle of Minden |
| 1759 12 August |
Battle of Kunersdorf |
| 1759 3 September |
Expulsion of the Jesuits from Portugal |
| 1760-1820 | Reign of George III of England |
| 1762-1796 | Reign of Catherine II the Great of Russia |
| 1762 | Rousseau publishes Social Contract |
| 1762 5 January |
Death of Empress Elizabeth of Russia |
| 1762 5 May |
Treaty of St. Petersburg ends war between Russia and Prussia |
| 1763 10 February |
Treaty of Paris |
| 1763 15 February |
Treaty of Hubertusburg |
| 1765-1780 | Joseph II emperor of Austria and co-regent with his mother Maria Theresa |
| 1773-1775 | Revolt of Pugachev in Russia |
| 1774-1792 | Reign of Louis XVI |
| 1774-1776 | Ministry of Turgot in France |
| 1775-1783 | War of American Independence |
| 1776 | Publication of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations |
| 1776-1788 | Publication of Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire |
| 1777-1781 | Ministry of Necker in France |
| 1780-1790 | Joseph II sole ruler of Austria |
| 1781 | Publication of Emmanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason |
| 1783-1787 | Ministry of Calonne in France |
| 1784-1791 | Publication of Johann Gottfried Herder's Idea for the Philosophy of History in four volumes |
| 1785 | Affair of the Diamond Necklace |
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Historian, author, teacher, and higher education administrator, Dr. Ronald H. Fritze is Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Athens State University in Athens, Alabama. He has participated in CornDancer's cyber community since January, 2004. |
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