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17th Century Timeline

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1. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






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






3. Torture is outlawed in England.






4. The Irish Rebellion.






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






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






7. Aurochs go extinct.






8. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






9. Beginning of English Civil War - conflict will end in 1651 with the execution of King Charles I - abolishment of the monarchy and the establishment of the supremacy of Parliament over the king.






10. Cardinal Richelieu lays siege to Protestant La Rochelle which eventually capitulates.






11. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






12. Koxinga captures Taiwan from the Dutch and founds the Kingdom of Tungning which rules until 1683.






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






14. Louis XIV accepts the Spanish crown on behalf of his grandson Philip of Anjou - triggering the War of the Spanish Succession






15. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






16. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






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






18. Peter the Great becomes joint ruler of Russia (sole tsar in 1696).






19. Polish






20. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






21. The Deluge wars leave Polish






22. Edict of Fontainebleau outlaws Protestantism in France. King Charles II dies






23. Torture is outlawed in England.






24. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






25. The Treaty of Zurawno brings Polish-Ottoman hostilities to a halt.






26. The Tokugawa Shogunate institutes Sakoku- foreigners are expelled and no one is allowed to enter or leave Japan.






27. The Commonwealth of England ends and the monarchy is brought back during the English Restoration.






28. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






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






30. Seven-year-old Mehmed IV becomes sultan.






31. The Pueblo Revolt drives the Spanish out of New Mexico until 1692.






32. Polish-Ottoman War.






33. Sultan Mehmed IV - advised by Kara Mustafa - decides to disregard the existing peace treaty with Leopold I - due to expire in 1684.






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






35. Emperor Ferdinand II defeats the Bohemian rebels in the Battle of White Mountain.






36. Famine in Finland wipes out almost a third of the population.






37. The Treaty of Zurawno brings Polish-Ottoman hostilities to a halt.






38. The Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas - the oldest existing university in Asia - established by the Dominican Order in Manila






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






40. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






41. The Defenestration of Prague






42. The Battle of Vienna finishes the Ottoman Empire's hegemony in south-eastern Europe.






43. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






44. The fortresses of Veszpr






45. Naval Battle of the Downs






46. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






47. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






48. Mehmed K






49. The Russian famine of 1601






50. 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.