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17th Century Timeline

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






2. Fronde civil war in France.






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






4. The Second Anglo-Dutch War fought between England and the United Provinces.






5. The Battle of Killiecrankie is fought between Jacobite and Williamite forces in Highland Perthshire






6. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






7. The earliest known first-class cricket match took place in Sussex.






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






9. Louis XIV accepts the Spanish crown on behalf of his grandson Philip of Anjou - triggering the War of the Spanish Succession






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






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






12. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






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






14. The Battle of Killiecrankie is fought between Jacobite and Williamite forces in Highland Perthshire






15. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






16. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






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






18. 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.






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20. Mount Vesuvius erupts






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






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






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






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






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






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






28. The Irish Rebellion.






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






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






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






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






33. English Civil War ends with the Parliamentarian victory at the Battle of Worcester.






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






35. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






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






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






38. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






39. Elizabeth I of England dies and is succeeded by her cousin King James VI of Scotland - uniting the crowns of Scotland and England.






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






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






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






43. Cardinal Richelieu allies with Swedish Protestant forces in the Thirty Years' War to counter Ferdinand II's expansion.






44. Famine in France kills 2 million.






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






46. The College of William and Mary is founded in Williamsburg - Virginia by a royal charter.






47. The Netherlands and Spain agree to a Twelve Years' Truce in the Eighty Years' War.






48. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






49. The Manchus start invading China. Their conquest eventually topples the Ming Dynasty.






50. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.