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17th Century Timeline

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1. Siamese revolution of 1688 ousted French influence and virtually severed all ties with the West until the 19th century.






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






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






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






5. Peter the Great becomes joint ruler of Russia (sole tsar in 1696).






6. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






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






9. Famine in Finland wipes out almost a third of the population.






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






11. After modernizing his army - Abbas I expands the Persian Empire by capturing territory from the Ottomans and the Portuguese.






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






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






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






15. The Ottomans capture Crete from the Venetians after the Siege of Candia.






16. Michael the Brave (first unificator of Romania) - voivode of Wallachia - Moldavia and Transylvania - is assassinated by the order of the Habsburg general Giorgio Basta at C






17. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






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






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






20. China conquers the Kingdom of Tungning and annexes Taiwan.






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






24. The Hudson's Bay Company is founded in Canada.






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






26. Franco-Dutch War.






27. The Irish Rebellion.






28. Michael the Brave (first unificator of Romania) - voivode of Wallachia - Moldavia and Transylvania - is assassinated by the order of the Habsburg general Giorgio Basta at C






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






30. The Great Fire of London.






31. Peter the Great becomes joint ruler of Russia (sole tsar in 1696).






32. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






33. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






34. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






35. Fronde civil war in France.






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






37. The Great Plague of Seville.






38. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






39. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






40. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






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






42. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






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






44. Mount Vesuvius erupts






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






46. The Karposh rebellion is crushed in present-day Republic of Macedonia - Skopje is retaken by the Ottoman Turks. Karposh is killed - and the rebels are defeated. Giles Cory was pressed to death during the Salem witch trials in the 1690s






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






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






49. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






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