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17th Century Timeline

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1. Fronde civil war in France.






2. Ren






3. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






4. After his father Shah Jahan completes the Taj Mahal - his son Aurangzeb deposes him as ruler of the Mughal Empire.






5. Elizabeth I of England dies and is succeeded by her cousin King James VI of Scotland - uniting the crowns of Scotland and England.






6. As chief minister - Cardinal Richelieu centralises power in France.






7. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






8. Jacques Aymar-Vernay - who later reintroduced Dowsing into popular use in Europe - is born.






9. The Ottomans capture Crete from the Venetians after the Siege of Candia.






10. Lithuanian Civil War






11. The Battle of St. Gotthard - Count Raimondo Montecuccoli defeats the Ottomans. The Peace of Vasvar






12. Polish-Ottoman War.






13. Capture of Ormuz; The island of Hormuz was captured by an Anglo-Persian force from Portuguese.






14. The Northern Wars cement Sweden's rise as a Great Power.






15. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






16. The fortresses of Veszpr






17. New Amsterdam founded by the Dutch WestIndia Company in North America.






18. Russia supplants Sweden as the dominant Baltic power after the Great Northern War.






19. Captain Willem Janszoon and his crew aboard the Dutch EastIndia Company ship Duyfken becomes the first recorded Europeans to sight and make landfall in Australia.






20. The Treaty of Karlowitz ends the Great Turkish War.






21. The Ottomans capture Crete.






22. Mehmed K






23. The Manchus start invading China. Their conquest eventually topples the Ming Dynasty.






24. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Pernambuco and founds Dutch Brazil.






25. Disagreements between the Farnese and Barberini Pope Urban VIII escalate into the Wars of Castro and last until 1649.






26. St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican completed.






27. The War of Devolution; France invades the Netherlands. The Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle (1668) brings this to a halt.






28. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






29. The Siege of Derry.






30. Lynching of Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis de Witt in the Hague






31. The Grand Alliance sought to stop French expansion during the Nine Years War.






32. The Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth army defeats combined Russian- Swedish forces at the Battle of Klushino and conquers Moscow.






33. Tokugawa Ieyasu seizes control of Japan and establishes the Tokugawa Shogunate - beginning the Edo period that lasts until 1869.






34. The Netherlands and Spain agree to a Twelve Years' Truce in the Eighty Years' War.






35. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






36. The Great Plague of London.






37. The death of Miyamoto Musashi - legendary Japanese Samurai warrior - of natural causes.






38. After his father Shah Jahan completes the Taj Mahal - his son Aurangzeb deposes him as ruler of the Mughal Empire.






39. British troops capture New Amsterdam and rename it New York.






40. Aurochs go extinct.






41. The Great Turkish War halts the Ottoman Empire's expansion into Europe.






42. The Peace of Westphalia ends the Thirty Years' War and the Eighty Years' War and marks the ends of Spain and the Holy Roman Empire as major European powers.






43. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






44. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






45. France takes full political and military control over its colonial possessions in New France.






46. The Manchu conquer China ending the Ming Dynasty. The subsequent Qing Dynasty rules until 1912.






47. Jamestown - Virginia - is settled as what would become the first permanent English colony in North America.






48. China conquers the Kingdom of Tungning and annexes Taiwan.






49. Quebec City founded by Samuel de Champlain in New France (present-day Canada).






50. William ascends to the throne over England - Scotland - and Ireland.