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World History Timeline: 1601 - 1700 |
| Year | Rulers | War and Politics | Entertainment | Literature | Art and Architecture | Science and Technology | India | Historic Events / Personalities | |
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| 1601-1610 | End of Boris Godunov's reign in Russia (1605) | Hans Lippershey invents the first refracting telescope.(1608) Italian Galileo Galilei confirms that the sun is the centre of the universe (1609) |
Quebec in Canada founded by French settlers (1608) | ||||||
| 1611-1620 | Reign of Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (1611-1632) Reign of Bethlen Gabor in Hungary (1613-1629) |
30 Years War involves almost all Europe except Britain (1618-1648) | In London, England, William Harvey discovers the circulation of the blood (1619-1628) | ||||||
| 1621-1630 | British king Charles I tries to rule without parliament (1629-1640) | Giovanni Branca invents a steam turbine.(1621) | The British set foot in Surat (1624) |
New York was established by the Dutch (1626) | |||||
| 1631-1640 | Reign of Queen Christina of Sweden (1632-1654) | W. Gascoigne invents the micrometer.(1636) | Portugal achieved independence from Spain (1640) | ||||||
| 1641-1650 | Reign of Louis XIV of France (1643-1715) | The English Civil War (1642-1651) Candian War between Venice and Ottoman Turks (1645-1669) Treaty of Westphalia ends 30 Years War (1648) |
Evangelista Torricelli invents the barometer.(1643) | The East India Company sets up factories at Madras (1641) | |||||
| 1651-1660 | English capture Jamaica from the Spanish(1655) | Christian Huygens invents a pendulum clock.(1656) |
Jan van Riebeeck founded Cape Town (1652) | ||||||
| 1661-1670 | English capture New Amsterdam from the Dutch; it is renamed New York (1664) | Isaac Newton invents a reflecting telescope.(1668) | British port and trading center established at Bombay.
(1661) First French trading post and factory established at Surat (1668) |
Great Fire of London (1666) | |||||
| 1671-1680 | Russo-Turkish War (1678-1681) | Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz invents a calculating machine.(1671) Christian Huygens patents the pocket watch.(1675) Denis Papin invents the pressure cooker.(1679) |
Shivaji defeat Aurangzeb's troops, and establishes Maratha Confederacy (1674) | Father Hennepin reaches Niagara Falls in Canada (1679) | |||||
| 1681-1690 | Reign of Peter the Great of Russia (1682-1725) | England became a constitutional monarchy (1689) | |||||||
| 1691-1700 | Englishmen, Thomas Savery invents a steam pump.(1698) | Calcutta founded (1690) | Royal Bank of Scotland is founded (1695) | ||||||
| Year | Rulers | War and Politics | Entertainment | Literature | Art and Architecture | Science and Technology | India | Historic Events / Personalities |
World History Timeline : 1501 - 1600 |
World History Timeline : 1701 - 1800 |
| World History: Early World • AD 1 - 1400 • 1401 - 1500 • 1501 - 1600 • 1601 - 1700 • 1701 - 1800 • 1801 - 1850 • 1851 - 1900 • 1901 - 1950 • 1951 - 2000 • 2001 - Present • Full Timeline Index |
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