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17th Century Timeline

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






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






3. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






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






5. Koxinga captures Taiwan from the Dutch and founds the Kingdom of Tungning which rules until 1683.






6. The Great Fire of London.






7. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






8. Emperor Fasilides founds the city of Gondar - which becomes the capital of Ethiopia for the next two centuries.






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






10. Aurochs go extinct.






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






12. Lynching of Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis de Witt in the Hague






13. Aurochs go extinct.






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






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






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






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






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






19. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






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






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






22. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






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






24. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






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






26. New Amsterdam founded by the Dutch WestIndia Company in North America.






27. The Commonwealth of England ends and the monarchy is brought back during the English Restoration.






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






29. The Great Fire of London.






30. Polish-Ottoman War.






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






32. New Amsterdam founded by the Dutch WestIndia Company in North America.






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






34. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






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






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






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






38. The Defenestration of Prague






39. The Peace of Westphalia ends the Thirty Years' War and the Eighty Years' War and marks the ends of Spain and the Holy Roman Empire as major European powers.






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






41. Emperor Fasilides founds the city of Gondar - which becomes the capital of Ethiopia for the next two centuries.






42. The Commonwealth of England ends and the monarchy is brought back during the English Restoration.






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






44. 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






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






46. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






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






48. The Northern Wars cement Sweden's rise as a Great Power.






49. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






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