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17th Century Timeline

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1. Fronde civil war in France.






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






3. Bethlen Gabor - Prince of Transylvania joins Protestant Rebels.






4. The Irish Rebellion.






5. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






13. The fortresses of Veszpr






14. Famine in France kills 2 million.






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






16. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






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






18. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






19. Maffeo Barberini is elected Pope Urban VIII at the Papal conclave of 1623.






20. 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






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






22. Naval Battle of the Downs






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






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






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






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






27. The Irish Rebellion.






28. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






29. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






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






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






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






33. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






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






35. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






36. British troops capture New Amsterdam and rename it New York.






37. Jacques Aymar-Vernay - who later reintroduced Dowsing into popular use in Europe - is born.






38. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






39. 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






40. The Ottomans capture Crete.






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






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






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






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






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






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






47. 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






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






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






50. Shimabara Rebellion of Japanese Christians - ronin and peasants against Edo.