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17th Century Timeline

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






2. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






3. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






4. 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.'






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






6. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






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






8. The Russian famine of 1601






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






10. 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






11. Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman achieves the first recorded European sighting of New Zealand.






12. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






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






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






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






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






17. The Time of Troubles in Russia ends with the establishment of the House of Romanov which rules until 1917.






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






19. Ren






20. The Treaty of Zurawno brings Polish-Ottoman hostilities to a halt.






21. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






22. The Treaty of Zurawno brings Polish-Ottoman hostilities to a halt.






23. Mary II of England dies






24. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






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






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






27. The Bank of England is established.






28. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






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






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






31. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






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






33. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






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






35. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






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






37. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






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






39. Mehmed K






40. William ascends to the throne over England - Scotland - and Ireland.






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






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






43. New Amsterdam founded by the Dutch WestIndia Company in North America.






44. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






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






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






47. Mount Vesuvius erupts






48. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






49. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






50. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.