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17th Century Timeline

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1. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






2. Franco-Dutch War.






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






4. 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.






5. Aurochs go extinct.






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






7. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






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






9. Battle of N






10. The Siege of Derry.






11. Mary II of England dies






12. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






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






14. Sultan Mehmed IV - advised by Kara Mustafa - decides to disregard the existing peace treaty with Leopold I - due to expire in 1684.






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






16. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






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






18. Mount Vesuvius erupts






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






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






21. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






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






23. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






24. Sultan Mehmed IV - advised by Kara Mustafa - decides to disregard the existing peace treaty with Leopold I - due to expire in 1684.






25. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






26. The Great Fire of London.






27. Famine in France kills 2 million.






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






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






30. British troops capture New Amsterdam and rename it New York.






31. Polish-Ottoman War.






32. Mehmed K






33. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






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






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






36. Mehmed K






37. The Ottomans capture Crete.






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






39. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






40. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






41. Flight of the Earls (the fleeing of most of the native Gaelic aristocracy) occurs from County Donegal in the west of Ulster in Ireland.






42. British troops capture New Amsterdam and rename it New York.






43. 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






44. Bethlen Gabor allies with the Ottomans and an invasion of Moldavia takes place. The Polish suffer a disaster at Cecora on the River Prut.






45. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






46. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






47. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






48. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






49. The Great Plague of Seville.






50. 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.