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17th Century Timeline

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






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






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






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






5. Torture is outlawed in England.






6. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






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






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






9. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






10. 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.






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






12. The Ottomans capture Crete from the Venetians after the Siege of Candia.






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






14. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






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






16. The Siege of Derry.






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






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






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






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






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






22. St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican completed.






23. 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.






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






25. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






26. The Deluge wars leave Polish






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






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






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






30. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






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






32. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






33. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






34. 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






35. Aurochs go extinct.






36. The Deluge wars leave Polish






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






38. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






39. Polish






40. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






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






42. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






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






44. Polish-Ottoman War.






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






46. The Defenestration of Prague






47. Capture of Ormuz; The island of Hormuz was captured by an Anglo-Persian force from Portuguese.






48. 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.






49. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






50. Aurochs go extinct.