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17th Century Timeline

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1. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






2. Torture is outlawed in England.






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






4. Ren






5. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






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






7. Torture is outlawed in England.






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






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






10. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






11. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






12. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






13. Mount Vesuvius erupts






14. The Great Plague of Seville.






15. Wars of the Three Kingdoms - civil wars throughout Scotland - Ireland - and England.






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. The Brownist Pilgrims arrive in the Mayflower at Cape Cod






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






25. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






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






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






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






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






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






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






32. The Manchus start invading China. Their conquest eventually topples the Ming Dynasty.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






46. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






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






48. The Manchus start invading China. Their conquest eventually topples the Ming Dynasty.






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






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







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