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17th Century Timeline

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1. John Evelyn's forestry book - Sylva - is published in England.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






10. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






11. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






12. The Siege of Derry.






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






14. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






15. Jamestown massacre - Algonquian natives kill 347 English settlers outside Jamestown - Virginia (1/3 of the colony's population) and burn the Henricus settlement.






16. Emperor Fasilides founds the city of Gondar - which becomes the capital of Ethiopia for the next two centuries.






17. The Great Fire of London.






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






19. Giovanni Battista Pamphili is elected PopeInnocent X at the Papal conclave of 1644.






20. The Defenestration of Prague






21. The Battle of Chocim - Poles and Cossacks under Jan Karol Chodkiewicz defeat the Ottomans.






22. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






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






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






25. Mount Vesuvius erupts






26. 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.






27. The Second Anglo-Dutch War fought between England and the United Provinces.






28. Emperor Fasilides expels the Catholic Patriarch Afonso Mendes and several Jesuit missionaries from Ethiopia.






29. The 1700 Cascadia earthquake (magnitude 9) occurs off the coast of the Pacific Northwest; Japan is struck by a tsunami.






30. Franco-Dutch War.






31. Cardinal Richelieu allies with Swedish Protestant forces in the Thirty Years' War to counter Ferdinand II's expansion.






32. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






33. Lithuanian Civil War






34. The Great Plague of London.






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






36. John Evelyn's forestry book - Sylva - is published in England.






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






38. After modernizing his army - Abbas I expands the Persian Empire by capturing territory from the Ottomans and the Portuguese.






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






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






41. Polish-Ottoman War.






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






43. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






44. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






45. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






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






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






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






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






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