page_title: Timeline of the 17th century
section_title: 1610s
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of the 17th century / 1610s
caption_attribution_description: Portrait of Jan Pieterszoon Coen (1587-1629)
context_page_description: This is a timeline of the 17th century.
context_section_description: 1610: Pedro de Peralta, governor of New Mexico, establishes the settlement of Santa Fe.
  1610: The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth army defeats combined Russian- Swedish forces at the Battle of Klushino and conquers Moscow.
  1610: The VOC appoints Pieter Both as its first Governor-General to enable firmer control of their affairs in Asia. Previously all business had (in theory) required the approval of the Heeren XVII, a group of seventeen shareholders in Amsterdam.
  1610: Ottoman Grand Vizier Kuyucu Murad Pasha is able to crush the major remnants of the Jelali Revolts, bringing an end to general anarchy in Anatolia.
  1610: Matteo Ricci dies in Beijing.
  1610: Panembahan Seda ing Krapyak of Mataram in Central Java attacks Surabaya, a major power on the north coast.
  1610: King Henry IV of France is assassinated by François Ravaillac.
  1611: The Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, the oldest existing university in Asia, established by the Dominican Order in Manila
  1611: The English establish trading posts at Sukadana (southwest Kalimantan), Makassar, Jayakarta and Jepara in Java, and Aceh, Pariaman and Jambi in (Sumatra) threatening Dutch ambitions for a monopoly on East Indies trade.
  1611: The Kingdom of Gowa ends its major push to convert the Makassarese and Bugis in South Sulawesi to Islam.
  1611: The Dutch establish a post at Jayakarta (later 'Batavia' and then 'Jakarta').
  1611: A Dutch trader is killed in Banjarmasin and the Dutch East India Trading Company sacks the city.
  1611: The first publication of the King James Bible.
  1612: Sultan Iskandar Muda of Aceh captures the North Sumatran port of Deli.
  1612: Costwold Olympic Games, Robert Dover
  1613: The Time of Troubles in Russia ends with the establishment of the House of Romanov, which rules until 1917.
  1613–1617: Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth is invaded by the Tatars dozens of times.
  1613: The Dutch expel the Portuguese from their Solor fort, but won't stay for long.
  1613: The Dutch East India Company makes its first forays into Timor.
  1613: Sultan Iskandar Muda of Aceh captures the North Sumatran port of Aru, subjugating the Sultanate of Deli. This allows Aceh to focus its expansionary efforts on the Straits of Malacca. Iskandar Muda continues on to sack Johor and kidnap its Sultan's family, but is later forced to retreat back to Aceh.
  1613: The Dutch East India Company is forced to evacuate Gresik because of the Mataram siege of neighboring Surabaya. The VOC enters into negotiations with Mataram and is allowed to set up a trading post in Jepara.
  1613: Panembahan Seda ing Krapyak of Mataram dies and is succeeded by his son.
  1614: John Napier publishes  Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio, the first table of logarithms.
  1614: Sultan Iskandar Muda of Aceh sinks a Portuguese fleet off of Bintan Island.
  1615: The Battle of Osaka (last major threat to Tokugawa shogunate) ends.
  1615: A Dutch East India Company attack on Portuguese Malacca is repelled.
  1615: The Portuguese stop hiring Japanese mercenaries after a brawl in Malacca.
  1615: Panembahan ing Alaga of Mataram conquers the Eastern Salient of Java (the heartland of the old Majapahit Empire).
  1615: The Dutch East India Company is in open hostilities with the Kingdom of Gowa, South Sulawesi.
  1616: The last remaining Moriscos (Moors who had nominally converted to Christianity) in Spain are expelled.
  1616: Death of retired shōgun Tokugawa Ieyasu.
  1616: English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.
  1617: Sultan Iskandar Muda of Aceh conquers Pahang on the South China Sea.
  1617: Panembahan ing Alaga of Mataram puts down a major revolt in Pajang.
  1618: The Defenestration of Prague.
  1618: The Bohemian Revolt precipitates the Thirty Years' War, which devastates Europe in the years 1618–48.
  1618: Bethlen Gabor, Prince of Transylvania joins Protestant Rebels.
  1618: The Manchus start invading China. Their conquest eventually topples the Ming dynasty.
  1618: Dispute leads to the execution of Dutchmen in Mataram-controlled Jepara.
  1619: Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.
  1619: Jan Pieterszoon Coen appoin
caption: 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.
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