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Timeline of the 17th century
This is a timeline of the 17th century.
Jan Pieterszoon Coen
(8 January 1587 – 21 September 1629), the founder of
Batavia
, was an officer of the
Dutch East India Company
(VOC) in the early seventeenth century, holding two terms as its
Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies
.
View of
Canton
with merchant ship of the Dutch East India Company, c. 1665
French invasion of the Netherlands, which
Louis XIV
initiated in 1672, starting the
Franco-Dutch War
.
The
Battle of Vienna
marked the historic end of the
expansion of the Ottoman Empire
into Europe.
