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17th Century Timeline

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1. 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.






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






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






4. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






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






6. The Defenestration of Prague






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






8. 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.'






9. The Great Plague of Seville.






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






11. Quebec City founded by Samuel de Champlain in New France (present-day Canada).






12. Polish-Ottoman War.






13. Peace Treaty of Lisbon between Spain and Portugal recognizes Portugal as independent country.






14. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






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






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






17. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






18. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






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






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






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






22. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






23. The fortresses of Veszpr






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






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






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






27. The Manchu conquer China ending the Ming Dynasty. The subsequent Qing Dynasty rules until 1912.






28. Fronde civil war in France.






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






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






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






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






33. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






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






35. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






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






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






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






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






40. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






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






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






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






44. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






45. Battle of L






46. The reign of the Kangxi Emperor of China begins.






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






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






49. Aurochs go extinct.






50. Lithuanian Civil War