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17th Century Timeline

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






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






3. Mehmed K






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






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






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






7. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






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






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






10. Peace Treaty of Lisbon between Spain and Portugal recognizes Portugal as independent country.






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






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






13. Polish-Ottoman War.






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






15. The Treaty of Karlowitz ends the Great Turkish War.






16. 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.






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






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






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






20. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






21. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






22. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






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






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






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






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






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






28. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






29. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






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






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






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






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






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






35. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






36. Antoni van Leeuwenhoek is the first to observe microbes with a homemade microscope - using samples he collected from his teeth scrapings - raindrops - and his own feces. He calls them 'animalcules.'






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






38. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






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






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






41. The Siege of Derry.






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






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






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






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






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






47. The Bank of England is established.






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






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






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