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17th Century Timeline

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1. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






2. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






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






4. Fronde civil war in France.






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






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






7. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






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






9. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






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






11. The Siege of Derry.






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






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.'






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






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






18. Koxinga captures Taiwan from the Dutch and founds the Kingdom of Tungning which rules until 1683.






19. La Salle explores the length of the Mississippi River and claims Louisiana for France.






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






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






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






23. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






24. Koxinga captures Taiwan from the Dutch and founds the Kingdom of Tungning which rules until 1683.






25. Shimabara Rebellion of Japanese Christians - ronin and peasants against Edo.






26. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






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






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






29. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






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






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






32. The Battle of Killiecrankie is fought between Jacobite and Williamite forces in Highland Perthshire






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






34. The Siege of Derry.






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






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






37. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






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






39. Pedro de Peralta - governor of New Mexico - establishes the settlement of Santa Fe.






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






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






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






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






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






45. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






46. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






47. The Ottomans capture Crete.






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






49. The Defenestration of Prague






50. 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.