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17th Century Timeline

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






2. The Treaty of Westminster ends the war between England and the Republic of the United Provinces.






3. 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.






4. Capture of Ormuz; The island of Hormuz was captured by an Anglo-Persian force from Portuguese.






5. Ottoman campaign to help the Ukrainian Cossacks. John Sobieski defeats the Ottomans at the second battle of Khotyn (1673).






6. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






7. The Treaty of Westminster ends the war between England and the Republic of the United Provinces.






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






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






10. Battle of Kinsale - one of the most important battles in Irish history - fought.






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






12. Mount Vesuvius erupts






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






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






15. The Defenestration of Prague






16. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






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






18. Polish-Ottoman War.






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






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






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






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






23. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






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






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






26. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






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






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






29. Bethlen Gabor allies with the Ottomans and an invasion of Moldavia takes place. The Polish suffer a disaster at Cecora on the River Prut.






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






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






32. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






33. The Great Plague of Seville.






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






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






36. 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.






37. Franco-Dutch War.






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






39. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






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






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






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






43. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






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






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






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






48. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






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






50. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.