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17th Century Timeline

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1. 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






2. Naval Battle of the Downs






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4. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






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






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






7. Giovanni Battista Pamphili is elected PopeInnocent X at the Papal conclave of 1644.






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






9. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






10. Emperor Ferdinand II defeats the Bohemian rebels in the Battle of White Mountain.






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






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






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






14. The Ottomans capture Crete.






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






16. Giovanni Battista Pamphili is elected PopeInnocent X at the Papal conclave of 1644.






17. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






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






19. The Great Plague of London.






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






21. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






22. Polish






23. The fortresses of Veszpr






24. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






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






26. Polish-Ottoman War.






27. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






28. Time of Troubles - Vasili IV becomes Tzar of Russia.






29. Ottoman campaign to help the Ukrainian Cossacks. John Sobieski defeats the Ottomans at the second battle of Khotyn (1673).






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






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






32. 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.'






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






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






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






36. Aurochs go extinct.






37. Ottoman campaign to help the Ukrainian Cossacks. John Sobieski defeats the Ottomans at the second battle of Khotyn (1673).






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






39. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






40. The Russian famine of 1601






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






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






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






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






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






46. 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






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






49. Polish-Ottoman War.






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