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17th Century Timeline

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






2. 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.






3. The Manchus start invading China. Their conquest eventually topples the Ming Dynasty.






4. Battle of N






5. 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.






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






7. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






8. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






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






10. The Defenestration of Prague






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






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






13. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






20. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






21. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






22. The Time of Troubles in Russia ends with the establishment of the House of Romanov which rules until 1917.






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






24. The Tokugawa Shogunate institutes Sakoku- foreigners are expelled and no one is allowed to enter or leave Japan.






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






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






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






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. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






30. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






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






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






33. Mehmed K






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






35. Emperor Fasilides expels the Catholic Patriarch Afonso Mendes and several Jesuit missionaries from Ethiopia.






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






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






38. 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






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






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






41. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






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






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






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






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






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






47. Battle of L






48. The Great Fire of London.






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






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







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