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17th Century Timeline

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






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






3. The Grand Alliance sought to stop French expansion during the Nine Years War.






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






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






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






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






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






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






10. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






11. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






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






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






14. The Great Plague of London.






15. Flight of the Earls (the fleeing of most of the native Gaelic aristocracy) occurs from County Donegal in the west of Ulster in Ireland.






16. Aurochs go extinct.






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






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






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






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






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






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






23. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






24. The Deluge wars leave Polish






25. The Irish Rebellion.






26. King Charles was compelled to summon Parliament due to the revolt of the Scots.






27. The Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth army defeats combined Russian- Swedish forces at the Battle of Klushino and conquers Moscow.






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






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






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






31. Disagreements between the Farnese and Barberini Pope Urban VIII escalate into the Wars of Castro and last until 1649.






32. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






33. The Irish Rebellion.






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






35. Franco-Dutch War.






36. Fronde civil war in France.






37. King Charles was compelled to summon Parliament due to the revolt of the Scots.






38. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






39. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






40. The Raid on the Medway during the Second Anglo-Dutch War.






41. Torture is outlawed in England.






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






43. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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







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