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17th Century Timeline

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1. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






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






3. The Russian famine of 1601






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






5. The Great Plague of London.






6. 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






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






8. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






9. Mount Vesuvius erupts






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






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






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






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






14. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






15. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






16. The death of Miyamoto Musashi - legendary Japanese Samurai warrior - of natural causes.






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






18. Polish






19. The fortresses of Veszpr






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






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






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






23. William ascends to the throne over England - Scotland - and Ireland.






24. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






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






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






27. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






28. Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman achieves the first recorded European sighting of New Zealand.






29. Naval Battle of the Downs






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






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






32. Franco-Dutch War.






33. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






34. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






35. The Pueblo Revolt drives the Spanish out of New Mexico until 1692.






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






37. Ren






38. Aurochs go extinct.






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






40. Polish-Ottoman War.






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






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






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






44. 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.






45. The Ottomans capture Crete.






46. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






47. The Battle of Chocim - Poles and Cossacks under Jan Karol Chodkiewicz defeat the Ottomans.






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






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






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