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17th Century Timeline

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1. 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.






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






3. The Great Plague of London.






4. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






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






6. Famine in Finland wipes out almost a third of the population.






7. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






8. The Treaty of Westminster ends the war between England and the Republic of the United Provinces.






9. The Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas - the oldest existing university in Asia - established by the Dominican Order in Manila






10. Battle of N






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






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






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






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






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






16. The Deluge wars leave Polish






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






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






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






20. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






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






22. Mount Vesuvius erupts






23. The Netherlands and Spain agree to a Twelve Years' Truce in the Eighty Years' War.






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






25. Cardinal Richelieu lays siege to Protestant La Rochelle which eventually capitulates.






26. The fortresses of Veszpr






27. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






28. 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.'






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






30. The Siege of Derry.






31. Russia supplants Sweden as the dominant Baltic power after the Great Northern War.






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






33. Polish-Ottoman War.






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






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






36. Fronde civil war in France.






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






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






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






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






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






42. The Great Fire of London.






43. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






44. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






45. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






46. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






47. Aurochs go extinct.






48. The Battle of Vienna finishes the Ottoman Empire's hegemony in south-eastern Europe.






49. King Charles was compelled to summon Parliament due to the revolt of the Scots.






50. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.