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17th Century Timeline

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






2. France takes full political and military control over its colonial possessions in New France.






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






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






5. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






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






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






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






10. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






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






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






13. Pedro de Peralta - governor of New Mexico - establishes the settlement of Santa Fe.






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






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






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






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






19. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






20. Aurochs go extinct.






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






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






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






24. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






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






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






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






28. A Habsburg council of war is held in Vienna.






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






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






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






32. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






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






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






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






36. The Siege of Derry.






37. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






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






39. Torture is outlawed in England.






40. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






41. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






42. 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.






43. The Brownist Pilgrims arrive in the Mayflower at Cape Cod






44. The Ottomans capture Crete.






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






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






47. Naval Battle of the Downs






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






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






50. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.







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