Events in the 17th Century

English Restoration
English Restoration
Events

The English Restoration, or simply The Restoration began in 1660 when the English monarchy, Scottish monarchy and Irish monarchy were restored under Charles II after the Interregnum that...

Great Fire of London
Great Fire of London
Events

The Great Fire of London, a major conflagration that swept through the central parts of London from Sunday, 2 September to Wednesday, 5 September 1666, was one of the major events in the...

Great Plague of London
Great Plague of London
Events

The Great Plague was a massive outbreak of disease in England that killed 75,000 to 100,000 people, up to a fifth of London's population. The disease was historically identified as...

Gunpowder Plot
Gunpowder Plot
Events

The Gunpowder Conspiracy of 1605, or the Powder Treason or Gunpowder Plot, as it was known at the time, was a failed assassination attempt by a group of provincial English Catholics against...

First English Civil War
First English Civil War
Events

The First English Civil War was the first of three wars known as the English Civil War . "The English Civil War" was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations which...

Second English Civil War
Second English Civil War
Events

The Second English Civil War was the second of three wars known as the English Civil War which refers to the series of armed conflicts and political machinations which took place...

Third English Civil War
Third English Civil War
Events

The Third English Civil War was the last of the English Civil War , a series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Parliamentarians and Royalists. The Preston campaign...

Scottish Civil War
Scottish Civil War
Events

Scotland in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms covers Scotland's involvement in the wider conflict known as the Wars of the Three Kingdoms between 1644 and 1650. The Wars of the Three Kingdoms...

Wars of the Three Kingdoms
Wars of the Three Kingdoms
Events

The Wars of the Three Kingdoms formed an intertwined series of conflicts that took place in Scotland, Ireland, and England between 1639 and 1651 after...

English Civil War
English Civil War
Events

The English Civil War was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Parliamentarians and Royalists. The first...

Irish Confederate Wars
Irish Confederate Wars
Events

This article is concerned with the military history of Ireland from 1641-53. For the political context of this conflict, see Confederate Ireland. The Irish Confederate Wars, also sometimes...

Thirty Years' War
Thirty Years' War
Events

The Thirty Years' War was a religious war principally fought in Germany, where it involved most of the European powers. The conflict began between Protestants and Catholics in the Holy...

Battle of Ningyuan
Battle of Ningyuan
Events

The Battle of Ningyuan was a battle between the Han Chinese Ming Dynasty and the Manchurian Later Jin in 1626. The Ming won this battle. This battle marks the temporary resurgence of the...

17th century
17th century
Events

The 17th Century was that century which lasted from 1601 to 1700 in the Gregorian calendar. The 17th Century falls into the Early Modern period of Europe and was characterized by the Baroque...

16th century
16th century
Events

As a means of recording the passage of time, the 16th century lasted from 1501 to 1600. During the 16th century, Spain and Portugal explored and conquered the world seas. Latin America...

Jacobean era
Jacobean era
Events

The Jacobean era refers to a period in English and Scottish history that coincides with the reign of King James I . The Jacobean era succeeds the Elizabethan era and precedes the Caroline...

Prehistory of Australia
Prehistory of Australia
Events

The prehistory of Australia is the period between the first human habitation of the Australian continent and the first definitive sighting of Australia by Europeans in 1606, which may be...

Pequot War
Pequot War
Events

The Pequot War was an armed conflict in 1636-1637 between an alliance of Massachusetts Bay and Plymouth colonies, with Native American allies , against the Pequot tribe....

Battle of Dessau Bridge
Battle of Dessau Bridge
Events

The Battle of Dessau Bridge was a battle of the Thirty Years' War near Dessau on April 25, 1626. The Imperial Roman Catholic forces of Albrecht von Wallenstein defeated the...

Battle of Plymouth
Battle of Plymouth
Events

For the American Civil War battle see: Battle of Plymouth The Battle of Plymouth was a naval battle in the First Anglo-Dutch War. It took place on 26 August 1652 ...

Short Parliament
Short Parliament
Politicians, Events

The Short Parliament of King Charles I is so called because it lasted only three weeks. After eleven years of attempting personal rule, Charles recalled Parliament in 1640,...

Khmelnytsky Uprising
Khmelnytsky Uprising
Events

The Khmelnytsky Uprising was a Cossack rebellion in Ukraine in 1648–1657 (1654) which turned into a Ukrainian war of liberation from Poland. Under the command of Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky...

Northern Wars
Northern Wars
Events

Northern Wars is a term used for a series of wars fought in northern and northeastern Europe in the 16th and 17th century. An internationally agreed on terminology for these wars does not...

Scanian War
Scanian War
Events

Scanian War (Danish: Skånske Krig, Swedish: Skånska kriget, German: Schonischer Krieg) was a part of the Northern Wars involving the union of Denmark-Norway, Brandenburg and Sweden. It was...

Monmouth Rebellion
Monmouth Rebellion
Events

The Monmouth Rebellion of 1685, also known as the Pitchfork Rebellion, was an attempt to overthrow James II, who had become King of England, King of Scots and King of Ireland at the death of...

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