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17th Century Timeline

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






2. 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






3. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






4. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






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






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






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






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






9. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






10. Battle of L






11. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






12. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






13. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






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






15. 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






16. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






17. The Bank of England is established.






18. Russia supplants Sweden as the dominant Baltic power after the Great Northern War.






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






20. The Bank of England is established.






21. Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before theInquisition.






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






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






24. 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.






25. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






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






27. Aurochs go extinct.






28. The Ottomans capture Crete.






29. A Habsburg council of war is held in Vienna.






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






31. The Russian famine of 1601






32. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






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






34. The Brownist Pilgrims arrive in the Mayflower at Cape Cod






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






36. The Great Turkish War halts the Ottoman Empire's expansion into Europe.






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






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






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






40. Portugal defeats the Kongo Empire at the Battle of Mbwila.






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






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






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






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






45. Polish-Ottoman War.






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






47. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






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






49. The Mughal Empire nearly bans the EastIndia Company in response to pirate Henry Every's capture of the Ganj-i-Sawai






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