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17th Century Timeline

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1. Battle of L






2. The Great Plague of London.






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






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






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






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






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






8. Battle of N






9. Mount Vesuvius erupts






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






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






12. Fronde civil war in France.






13. Polish-Ottoman War.






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






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






16. Ren






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






18. The Irish Rebellion.






19. Time of Troubles - Vasili IV becomes Tzar of Russia.






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






21. The Bank of England is established.






22. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






23. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






24. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






25. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






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






27. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






28. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






29. The War of Devolution; France invades the Netherlands. The Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle (1668) brings this to a halt.






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






31. After his father Shah Jahan completes the Taj Mahal - his son Aurangzeb deposes him as ruler of the Mughal Empire.






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






33. The Defenestration of Prague






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






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






36. Edict of Fontainebleau outlaws Protestantism in France. King Charles II dies






37. Siamese revolution of 1688 ousted French influence and virtually severed all ties with the West until the 19th century.






38. Edict of Fontainebleau outlaws Protestantism in France. King Charles II dies






39. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






40. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






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






42. The Defenestration of Prague






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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