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17th Century Timeline

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1. The Irish Rebellion.






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






3. Ren






4. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






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






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






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






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






9. Battle of N






10. The Irish Rebellion.






11. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






12. King Charles was compelled to summon Parliament due to the revolt of the Scots.






13. The Deluge wars leave Polish






14. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






15. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






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






17. Battle of L






18. The Great Fire of London.






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






20. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Bahia in Brazil.






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






22. Mount Vesuvius erupts






23. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






24. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






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






26. Shimabara Rebellion of Japanese Christians - ronin and peasants against Edo.






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






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






29. Flight of the Earls (the fleeing of most of the native Gaelic aristocracy) occurs from County Donegal in the west of Ulster in Ireland.






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






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






32. The Portuguese Restoration War led to the end of the Iberian Union.






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






34. Maffeo Barberini is elected Pope Urban VIII at the Papal conclave of 1623.






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






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






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






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






39. Fronde civil war in France.






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






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






42. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






43. 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.






44. Franco-Dutch War.






45. 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.'






46. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






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






48. Maffeo Barberini is elected Pope Urban VIII at the Papal conclave of 1623.






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






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