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17th Century Timeline

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






2. The Defenestration of Prague






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






4. Polish






5. The Mughal Empire nearly bans the EastIndia Company in response to pirate Henry Every's capture of the Ganj-i-Sawai






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






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






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






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






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






11. Treaty of Vienna ends anti-Habsburg uprising in Royal Hungary.






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






13. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






14. Mount Vesuvius erupts






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






16. The Raid on the Medway during the Second Anglo-Dutch War.






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






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






19. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






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






21. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






22. Portugal defeats the Kongo Empire at the Battle of Mbwila.






23. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






24. Polish-Ottoman War.






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






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






27. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






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






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






30. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






31. The Deluge wars leave Polish






32. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






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






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






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






36. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






37. Ren






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






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






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






41. Lithuanian Civil War






42. Mary II of England dies






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






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






45. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






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






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






48. The Deluge wars leave Polish






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






50. Lithuanian Civil War







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