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17th Century Timeline

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1. Jamestown massacre - Algonquian natives kill 347 English settlers outside Jamestown - Virginia (1/3 of the colony's population) and burn the Henricus settlement.






2. The Treaty of Westminster ends the war between England and the Republic of the United Provinces.






3. The Irish Rebellion.






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






5. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






6. The reign of the Kangxi Emperor of China begins.






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






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






9. Mary II of England dies






10. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






11. The Siege of Derry.






12. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






21. Mount Vesuvius erupts






22. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






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






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






25. Franco-Dutch War.






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






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






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






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






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






31. Torture is outlawed in England.






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






33. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






34. Mehmed K






35. The Glorious Revolution starts with the Dutch Republic invading England - England becomes a constitutional monarchy.






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






37. Battle of Kinsale - one of the most important battles in Irish history - fought.






38. The Defenestration of Prague






39. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






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






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






42. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






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






44. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






45. After modernizing his army - Abbas I expands the Persian Empire by capturing territory from the Ottomans and the Portuguese.






46. Captain Willem Janszoon and his crew aboard the Dutch EastIndia Company ship Duyfken becomes the first recorded Europeans to sight and make landfall in Australia.






47. Famine in France kills 2 million.






48. Beginning of English Civil War - conflict will end in 1651 with the execution of King Charles I - abolishment of the monarchy and the establishment of the supremacy of Parliament over the king.






49. The Deluge wars leave Polish






50. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu