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17th Century Timeline

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






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






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






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






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






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






7. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






8. Lithuanian Civil War






9. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






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






11. Mount Vesuvius erupts






12. The College of William and Mary is founded in Williamsburg - Virginia by a royal charter.






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






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






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






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






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






18. Polish-Ottoman War.






19. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






20. Fronde civil war in France.






21. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






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






23. The Treaty of Karlowitz ends the Great Turkish War.






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






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






26. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






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






28. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






29. The Defenestration of Prague






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






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






32. The Battle of St. Gotthard - Count Raimondo Montecuccoli defeats the Ottomans. The Peace of Vasvar






33. St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican completed.






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






35. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






36. Thomas Savery demonstrates his first steam engine to the Royal Society.






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






38. The Battle of Killiecrankie is fought between Jacobite and Williamite forces in Highland Perthshire






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






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






41. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






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






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






44. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






45. Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge founded.






46. Mary II of England dies






47. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






48. The College of William and Mary is founded in Williamsburg - Virginia by a royal charter.






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






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