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17th Century Timeline

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






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






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






4. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






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






6. The Russian famine of 1601






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






8. The Battle of St. Gotthard - Count Raimondo Montecuccoli defeats the Ottomans. The Peace of Vasvar






9. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






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






11. As chief minister - Cardinal Richelieu centralises power in France.






12. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






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






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






15. 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.






16. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






17. The Mughal Empire nearly bans the EastIndia Company in response to pirate Henry Every's capture of the Ganj-i-Sawai






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






19. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






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






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






22. Naval Battle of the Downs






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






31. Flight of the Earls (the fleeing of most of the native Gaelic aristocracy) occurs from County Donegal in the west of Ulster in Ireland.






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






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






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






35. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






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






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






38. The Siege of Derry.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






49. Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before theInquisition.






50. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.