History timeline 1600-1700

  • 1601

    The Dutch defeated the Portuguese
  • 1602

    The Dutch government gave the Dutch East India Company a monopoly to pursue trade in Asia.
  • 1603

    Queen Elizabeth dies at the age of 69.
  • 1604

    James agrees to translate the Bible.
  • 1605

    Ottoman army is defeated by Iranian army.
  • 1606

    Northern Australia is discovered by the Dutch.
  • 1607

    The Dutch defeat a Spanish fleet.
  • 1608

    The Frenchmen trade with the Indians with animal furs.
  • 1610

    Henry IV is assassinated.
  • 1613

    The Dutch arrive at the Island of Timur.
  • 1615

    the Tokugawa Period of Japanese history has begun.
  • 1616

    A Dutch sea captain discovered western Australia.
  • 1619

    Colonist in Virginia buy 20 Blacks from s Dutch ship.
  • 1620

    Puritans are blown off course and land in Massachusetts.
  • 1621

    The pilgrims in Massachusetts have a meal with the Wampanoag.
  • 1624

    The Dutch establish a fur trade.
  • 1625

    The king of Denmark joins the Thirty-Years War.
  • 1626

    In Madagascar, the French establish an outpost.
  • 1629

    Hundreds of people are being burned as witches in the Holy Roman Empire.
  • 1631

    English Build a fort on the northern Gold Coast in Western Africa.
  • 1632

    The town of Boston was founded.
  • 1636

    Rodger Williams arrives in what we today call as Rhode Island.
  • 1637

    Manchu troops have crossed the Yalu River
  • 1641

    A fort is founded at what we call today as Montreal.
  • 1642

    The Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn paints 'The Rabbi'
  • 1648

    Queen Nzinga's alliances with the Dutch comes to nothing as the Portuguese.
  • 1649

    ShahAbbas II of Iran pushes the Mughals out of Kandahar.
  • 1651

    Cromwell defeats Scottish Armies.
  • 1653

    a war begins between English and Dutch
  • 1657

    10,000 people die in Japans biggest Urban fire.
  • 1658

    Cromwell dies.
  • 1665

    Two-thirds of London is evacuated to avoid the Black Plague.
  • 1668

    The French establish their first Factory.
  • 1670

    Puritans founded Charlestown.
  • 1672

    Charles the II joins Louis the VIX of France in another war against the Dutch.
  • 1674

    The French establish a trading post in India.
  • 1677

    The French Build a fort on the island of Goree.
  • 1681

    In London a women was for the crime of having become involved in politics.
  • 1683

    Taiwan submits to monchu authority.
  • 1687

    The Ottomans are falling back.
  • 1694

    In Africa, the English the fort on the Sengal River
  • 1700

    The world is populated by between 600 and 680million people.