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17th Century Timeline

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1. 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.'






2. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






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






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






5. Naval Battle of the Downs






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






7. 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






8. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






9. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






10. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






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






12. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Pernambuco and founds Dutch Brazil.






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






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






15. Famine in France kills 2 million.






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






17. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






18. The Battle of Chocim - Poles and Cossacks under Jan Karol Chodkiewicz defeat the Ottomans.






19. The Bohemian Revolt precipitates the Thirty Years' War which devastates Europe in the years 1618






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






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






22. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






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






24. La Salle explores the length of the Mississippi River and claims Louisiana for France.






25. The Great Plague of Seville.






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






27. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






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






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






30. Cape Town founded by the Dutch EastIndia Company in South Africa.






31. 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.






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






33. The Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas - the oldest existing university in Asia - established by the Dominican Order in Manila






34. Seven-year-old Mehmed IV becomes sultan.






35. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






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






37. Mount Vesuvius erupts






38. Mehmed K






39. The last remaining Moriscos (Moors who had nominally converted to Christianity) in Spain are expelled.






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






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






42. 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






43. The Deluge wars leave Polish






44. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






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






46. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






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






48. Battle of L






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






50. Cardinal Richelieu lays siege to Protestant La Rochelle which eventually capitulates.