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17th Century Timeline

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1. Mary II of England dies






2. The Russian famine of 1601






3. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






4. 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






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






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






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






8. Ren






9. Russia and the Ottoman Empire commence the Russo-Turkish Wars.






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






11. Portugal defeats the Kongo Empire at the Battle of Mbwila.






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






13. The Deluge wars leave Polish






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






15. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






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






17. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






18. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






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






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






21. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






22. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






23. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






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






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






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






27. Franco-Dutch War.






28. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






29. 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.'






30. The Great Plague of Seville.






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






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






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






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






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






36. Torture is outlawed in England.






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






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






39. Sultan Mehmed IV - advised by Kara Mustafa - decides to disregard the existing peace treaty with Leopold I - due to expire in 1684.






40. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






41. Portugal defeats the Kongo Empire at the Battle of Mbwila.






42. The College of William and Mary is founded in Williamsburg - Virginia by a royal charter.






43. Peter the Great becomes joint ruler of Russia (sole tsar in 1696).






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






45. The Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth army defeats combined Russian- Swedish forces at the Battle of Klushino and conquers Moscow.






46. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






47. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






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






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






50. 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.







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