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17th Century Timeline

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






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






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






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






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






6. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






7. The death of Miyamoto Musashi - legendary Japanese Samurai warrior - of natural causes.






8. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






9. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






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






11. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






22. Lithuanian Civil War






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






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






25. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






26. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Pernambuco and founds Dutch Brazil.






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






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






29. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






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






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






32. The Irish Rebellion.






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






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






35. 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






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






37. Ren






38. Franco-Dutch War.






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






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






41. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






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






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






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






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






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. The Karposh rebellion is crushed in present-day Republic of Macedonia - Skopje is retaken by the Ottoman Turks. Karposh is killed - and the rebels are defeated. Giles Cory was pressed to death during the Salem witch trials in the 1690s






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






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






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