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17th Century Timeline

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1. Battle of N






2. Polish-Ottoman War.






3. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






4. As chief minister - Cardinal Richelieu centralises power in France.






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






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






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






8. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






9. The Battle of Vienna finishes the Ottoman Empire's hegemony in south-eastern Europe.






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






11. Polish-Ottoman War.






12. St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican completed.






13. 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.'






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






23. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






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






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






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






27. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






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






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






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






31. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






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






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






34. Mehmed K






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






36. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






37. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






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






39. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Bahia in Brazil.






40. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






41. The Siege of Derry.






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






43. The Great Plague of Seville.






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






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






46. Aurochs go extinct.






47. Dutch EastIndia Company founded. Its success contributes to the Dutch Golden Age.






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






49. Capture of Ormuz; The island of Hormuz was captured by an Anglo-Persian force from Portuguese.






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