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17th Century Timeline

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






2. 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.






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






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






5. Cardinal Richelieu allies with Swedish Protestant forces in the Thirty Years' War to counter Ferdinand II's expansion.






6. Lynching of Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis de Witt in the Hague






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






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






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






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






11. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






12. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






13. The Irish Rebellion.






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






15. Wars of the Three Kingdoms - civil wars throughout Scotland - Ireland - and England.






16. The Long War between the Ottoman Empire and Austria is ended with the Peace of Zsitvatorok - Austria abandons Transylvania.






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






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






19. Aurochs go extinct.






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






21. Mehmed K






22. The last remaining Moriscos (Moors who had nominally converted to Christianity) in Spain are expelled.






23. English Civil War ends with the Parliamentarian victory at the Battle of Worcester.






24. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






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






26. The Tokugawa Shogunate institutes Sakoku- foreigners are expelled and no one is allowed to enter or leave Japan.






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






28. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






29. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






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






31. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






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






33. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






34. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






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






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






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






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






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






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






41. 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.






42. Polish






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






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






45. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






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






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






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






49. Peace Treaty of Lisbon between Spain and Portugal recognizes Portugal as independent country.






50. John Locke publishes his first 'Letter Concerning Toleration'.