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17th Century Timeline

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1. 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






2. Edict of Fontainebleau outlaws Protestantism in France. King Charles II dies






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






4. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






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






6. Emperor Ferdinand II defeats the Bohemian rebels in the Battle of White Mountain.






7. Edict of Fontainebleau outlaws Protestantism in France. King Charles II dies






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






9. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






10. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






11. Cape Town founded by the Dutch EastIndia Company in South Africa.






12. Cape Town founded by the Dutch EastIndia Company in South Africa.






13. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






14. The Ottomans capture Crete.






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






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






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






18. The War of Devolution; France invades the Netherlands. The Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle (1668) brings this to a halt.






19. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






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






21. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






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






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






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






25. Naval Battle of the Downs






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






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






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






29. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






30. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






31. Ottoman war with Venice. The Ottomans invade Crete and capture Canea.






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






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






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






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






36. 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.






37. The Deluge wars leave Polish






38. Ottoman campaign to help the Ukrainian Cossacks. John Sobieski defeats the Ottomans at the second battle of Khotyn (1673).






39. The Mughal Empire nearly bans the EastIndia Company in response to pirate Henry Every's capture of the Ganj-i-Sawai






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






41. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






42. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






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






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






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






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






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






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






49. The Bank of England is established.






50. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu