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17th Century Timeline

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1. 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.'






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






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






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






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






6. The Bohemian Revolt precipitates the Thirty Years' War which devastates Europe in the years 1618






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






8. The 1700 Cascadia earthquake (magnitude 9) occurs off the coast of the Pacific Northwest; Japan is struck by a tsunami.






9. Lithuanian Civil War






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






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






12. 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.'






13. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






14. Fronde civil war in France.






15. The Treaty of Karlowitz ends the Great Turkish War.






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






17. Franco-Dutch War.






18. Treaty of Vienna ends anti-Habsburg uprising in Royal Hungary.






19. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






27. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






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






29. The Treaty of Karlowitz ends the Great Turkish War.






30. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






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






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






33. Seven-year-old Mehmed IV becomes sultan.






34. The Great Fire of London.






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






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






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






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






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






40. 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.






41. Mount Vesuvius erupts






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






43. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






44. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






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






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






47. Battle of L






48. The Deluge wars leave Polish






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






50. Naval Battle of the Downs






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