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17th Century Timeline

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






2. The reign of the Kangxi Emperor of China begins.






3. Bethlen Gabor - Prince of Transylvania joins Protestant Rebels.






4. The earliest known first-class cricket match took place in Sussex.






5. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






6. Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman achieves the first recorded European sighting of New Zealand.






7. Famine in France kills 2 million.






8. Time of Troubles - Vasili IV becomes Tzar of Russia.






9. Franco-Dutch War.






10. John Locke publishes his first 'Letter Concerning Toleration'.






11. The Great Plague of London.






12. The Karposh rebellion is crushed in present-day Republic of Macedonia - Skopje is retaken by the Ottoman Turks. Karposh is killed - and the rebels are defeated. Giles Cory was pressed to death during the Salem witch trials in the 1690s






13. La Salle explores the length of the Mississippi River and claims Louisiana for France.






14. Cape Town founded by the Dutch EastIndia Company in South Africa.






15. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






16. Dutch EastIndia Company founded. Its success contributes to the Dutch Golden Age.






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






18. The Hudson's Bay Company is founded in Canada.






19. The Time of Troubles in Russia ends with the establishment of the House of Romanov which rules until 1917.






20. Ottoman war with Venice. The Ottomans invade Crete and capture Canea.






21. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






22. The Treaty of Nerchinsk established a border between Russia and China.






23. Russia and the Ottoman Empire commence the Russo-Turkish Wars.






24. Siamese revolution of 1688 ousted French influence and virtually severed all ties with the West until the 19th century.






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






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






27. Antoni van Leeuwenhoek is the first to observe microbes with a homemade microscope - using samples he collected from his teeth scrapings - raindrops - and his own feces. He calls them 'animalcules.'






28. The last remaining Moriscos (Moors who had nominally converted to Christianity) in Spain are expelled.






29. Peace Treaty of Lisbon between Spain and Portugal recognizes Portugal as independent country.






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






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






32. The Glorious Revolution starts with the Dutch Republic invading England - England becomes a constitutional monarchy.






33. Wars of the Three Kingdoms - civil wars throughout Scotland - Ireland - and England.






34. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






35. The Great Plague of Seville.






36. 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.






37. Fronde civil war in France.






38. La Salle explores the length of the Mississippi River and claims Louisiana for France.






39. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






40. The Deluge wars leave Polish






41. English Civil War ends with the Parliamentarian victory at the Battle of Worcester.






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






43. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






44. Peace Treaty of Lisbon between Spain and Portugal recognizes Portugal as independent country.






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






46. The Bohemian Revolt precipitates the Thirty Years' War which devastates Europe in the years 1618






47. The Siege of Derry.






48. The Long War between the Ottoman Empire and Austria is ended with the Peace of Zsitvatorok - Austria abandons Transylvania.






49. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






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