Editing 17th century (section)

===1651–1700===
[[File:La ronda de noche, por Rembrandt van Rijn.jpg|thumb|''[[Night Watch (painting)|The Night Watch]]'' or ''The Militia Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq'', 1642. Oil on canvas; on display at the [[Rijksmuseum]], [[Amsterdam]]|220x220px]]
*[[1651]]: [[English Civil War]] ends with the Parliamentarian victory at the [[Battle of Worcester]].
* [[1656]]–[[1661]]: [[Mehmed Köprülü]] is [[Grand Vizier]].
* [[1655]]–[[1661]]: The [[Northern Wars]] cement [[Swedish Empire|Sweden's]] rise as a [[Rise of Sweden as a Great Power|Great Power]]. 
* [[1657]] : [[Sambhaji]], the second King of Maratha Empire and eldest son of King Shivaji was born at [[Purandar Fort]] on 14 May.{{Cn|date=May 2024}}
* [[1658]]: After his father [[Shah Jahan]] completes the [[Taj Mahal]], his son [[Aurangzeb]] deposes him as ruler of the [[Mughal Empire]]. 
* [[1659]]: King [[Shivaji]] killed [[Adil Shahi dynasty|Adil Shahi dynasty's]] general [[Afzal Khan (general)|Afzal Khan]] at [[Pratapgad Fort|Pratapgad fort]] on 9 November.<ref>{{Cite news |title=London museum correct record on general disembowelment by Chhatrapati Shivaji |url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/nation/london-museum-correct-record-on-general-disembowellment-by-shivaji-343788 |newspaper=The Tribune}}</ref>
* [[1660]]: The [[Commonwealth of England]] ends and the monarchy is brought back during the [[English Restoration]].
* [[1660]]: The [[Royal Society]] is founded.
* [[1660]]: The [[Bruneian Civil War]] begins
* [[1661]]: The reign of the [[Kangxi Emperor]] of China begins.
* [[1663]]: [[Ottoman–Habsburg wars|Ottoman war]] against [[Kingdom of Hungary (1526–1867)|Habsburg Hungary]].
* [[1664]]: The [[Battle of Saint Gotthard (1664)|Battle of St. Gotthard]]: count [[Raimondo Montecuccoli]] defeats the Ottomans. The [[Peace of Vasvar]] – intended to keep the peace for 20 years.
* [[1665]]: [[Maratha Empire|Maratha]] King [[Shivaji]] signed the [[Treaty of Purandar (1665)|Treaty of Purandar]] with Mughal general [[Jai Singh I]] after [[Battle of Purandar]].{{Cn|date=May 2024}}
* [[1665]]: [[Robert Hooke]] discovers cells using a microscope.
* [[1665]]: [[Portuguese Empire|Portugal]] defeats the [[Kongo Empire]] at the [[Battle of Mbwila]].[[File:Taj Mahal (Edited).jpeg|thumb|[[Taj Mahal]], completed by 1653 and commissioned by [[Shah Jahan]], one of the [[Wonders of the World]]|210x210px]]
* [[1665]]–[[1667]]: The [[Second Anglo-Dutch War]] fought between [[England]] and the [[Dutch Republic|United Provinces]].
* [[1666]]: The [[Great Fire of London]]. 
* [[1660s in archaeology|1666]]: [[Shivaji]] visited [[Aurangzeb]] at [[Agra Fort]] and forced him into house arrest. Shivaji later escaped and returned to the [[Maratha Kingdom|Maratha kingdom]].{{Cn|date=May 2024}}
* [[1667]]: The [[Raid on the Medway]] during the [[Second Anglo-Dutch War]].
* [[1667]]–[[1668]]: The [[War of Devolution]]: France invades the Netherlands. The [[Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (1668)|Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle]] (1668) brings this to a halt.
* [[1667]]–[[1699]]: The [[Great Turkish War]] halts the [[Ottoman Empire]]'s expansion into Europe.
* [[1672]]–[[1673]]: Ottoman campaign to help the [[Ukrainian Cossacks]]. [[John Sobieski]] defeats the Ottomans at the second [[battle of Khotyn (1673)]].
* [[1672]]–[[1674]]: The [[Third Anglo-Dutch War]] fought between [[England]] and the [[Dutch Republic|United Provinces]]
* [[1672]]–[[1676]]: [[Polish–Ottoman War (1672–1676)|Polish–Ottoman War]].[[File:1680 van der Meulen Louis XIV bei Lobith anagoria.JPG|thumb|200x200px|French invasion of the Netherlands, which [[Louis XIV of France|Louis XIV]] initiated in 1672, starting the [[Franco-Dutch War]]]]
* [[1672]]–[[1678]]: [[Franco-Dutch War]].
* [[1673]]: The [[Bruneian Civil War]] ends with [[Muhyiddin of Brunei|Muhiyiddin]] winning the war.
* [[1674]]: [[Shivaji]] founded the [[Maratha Empire]] and crowned himself as first [[Chhatrapati|Chatrapati]] of the empire.
* [[1676]]–[[1681]]: Russia and the [[Ottoman Empire]] commence the [[Russo-Turkish War (1676–1681)|Russo-Turkish Wars]].
* [[1678]]: The [[Treaty of Nijmegen]] ends various interconnected wars among France, the Dutch Republic, Spain, Brandenburg, Sweden, Denmark, the Prince-Bishopric of Münster, and the Holy Roman Empire.[[File:Lasalle au Mississippi.jpg|thumb|Claiming [[Louisiana (New France)|Louisiana]] for France in 1682|181x181px]]
* [[1680]]: The [[Pueblo Revolt]] drives the Spanish out of [[Santa Fe de Nuevo México|New Mexico]] until 1692. 
* [[1680]]: Prince [[Sambhaji]] crowned himself as the second ''[[Chhatrapati|Chatrapati]]'' of [[Maratha Empire]] 20 July.{{Cn|date=May 2024}}
*[[1682]]: French explorer [[René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle|Robert La Salle]] claims all the land east of the Mississippi River.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=René-Robert Cavelier, sieur de La Salle |encyclopedia=Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Rene-Robert-Cavelier-sieur-de-La-Salle |access-date=21 March 2021 |date=30 March 2021 |quote=}}</ref>
* [[1683]]: [[China]] conquers the [[Kingdom of Tungning]] and annexes [[Taiwan]].
* [[1683]]: The Ottoman Empire is defeated in the second [[Battle of Vienna|Siege of Vienna]].
* [[1683]]–[[1699]]: The [[Great Turkish War]] leads to the conquest of most of [[Ottoman Hungary]] by the Habsburgs.
* [[1687]]: [[Isaac Newton]] publishes ''[[Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica]]''.
* [[1688]]: The [[Siege of Derry]], the first major event in the [[Williamite War in Ireland]].
* [[1688]]: [[Siamese revolution of 1688]] ousted French influence and virtually severed all ties with the West until the 19th century.
* [[1688]]–[[1689]]: The [[Glorious Revolution]] starts with the [[Dutch Republic]] invading England, England becomes a [[constitutional monarchy]].
* [[1688]]–[[1691]]: [[Williamite War in Ireland|The War of the Two Kings]] in Ireland.
* [[1688]]–[[1697]]: The [[Grand Alliance (League of Augsburg)|Grand Alliance]] sought to stop French expansion during the [[Nine Years' War]].
* [[1689]]: The [[Battle of Killiecrankie]] is fought between [[Jacobitism|Jacobite]] and [[Williamite]] forces in Highland [[Perthshire]].
* [[1689]]: The [[Karposh's rebellion|Karposh rebellion]] is crushed in present-day [[North Macedonia]], Skopje is retaken by the Ottoman Turks. Karposh is killed, and the rebels are defeated.[[File:Atlas Van der Hagen-KW1049B10 050-De belegering van Wenen door de Turken in 1683.jpeg|thumb|190x190px|The [[Battle of Vienna]] (1683) marked the historic end of the [[Ottoman wars in Europe|expansion of the Ottoman Empire]] into Europe]]
* [[1689]]: [[Bill of Rights 1689|Bill of Rights]] gains royal consent.
* [[1689]]: [[John Locke]] publishes ''[[Two Treatises of Government]]'' and ''[[A Letter Concerning Toleration]].''
* [[1690]]: The [[Battle of the Boyne]] in Ireland.
* [[1692]]: [[Port Royal]] in Jamaica is struck by an earthquake and a tsunami. Approximately 2,000 people die and 2,300 are injured.
* [[1692]]–[[1694]]: Famine in France kills two million.<ref>Alan Macfarlane (1997). ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=eGsCGAdH4YQC&pg=PA64 The savage wars of peace: England, Japan and the Malthusian trap]''. Wiley . p. 64. {{ISBN|0-631-18117-2}}</ref>
* [[1693]]: [[College of William & Mary]] is founded in [[Williamsburg, Virginia]], by a royal charter.
* [[1694]]: The [[Bank of England]] is established.
* [[1695]]: The [[Mughal Empire]] nearly bans the [[East India Company]] in response to pirate [[Henry Every]]'s capture of the trading ship ''[[Ganj-i-Sawai]]''.
* [[1696]]–[[1697]]: [[List of famines|Famine]] in [[Finland]] wipes out almost one-third of the population.<ref>Karen J. Cullen (2010). "''[https://books.google.com/books?id=RiLjHZdt-sMC&pg=PA20 Famine in Scotland: The 'Ill Years' of the 1690s]''". [[Edinburgh University Press]]. p. 20. {{ISBN|0-7486-3887-3}}</ref>
* [[1697]]–[[1699]]: [[Grand Embassy of Peter the Great]] to Western Europe.
* [[1699]]: [[Thomas Savery]] demonstrates his first [[steam engine]] to the [[Royal Society]].