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17th Century Timeline

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1. The Siege of Derry.






2. After modernizing his army - Abbas I expands the Persian Empire by capturing territory from the Ottomans and the Portuguese.






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






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






5. Famine in France kills 2 million.






6. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






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






8. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






9. Battle of L






10. Mary II of England dies






11. The Bank of England is established.






12. Polish






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






14. The last remaining Moriscos (Moors who had nominally converted to Christianity) in Spain are expelled.






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






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






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






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






19. 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.






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






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






22. Dutch EastIndia Company founded. Its success contributes to the Dutch Golden Age.






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






24. Tokugawa Ieyasu seizes control of Japan and establishes the Tokugawa Shogunate - beginning the Edo period that lasts until 1869.






25. The Russian famine of 1601






26. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






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






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






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






30. Maffeo Barberini is elected Pope Urban VIII at the Papal conclave of 1623.






31. The Irish Rebellion.






32. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






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






34. France takes full political and military control over its colonial possessions in New France.






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






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






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






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






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






40. Naval Battle of the Downs






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






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






43. Franco-Dutch War.






44. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






45. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






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






47. The Defenestration of Prague






48. The Russian famine of 1601






49. The Great Fire of London.






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