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17th Century Timeline

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1. Koxinga captures Taiwan from the Dutch and founds the Kingdom of Tungning which rules until 1683.






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






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






4. Franco-Dutch War.






5. Thomas Savery demonstrates his first steam engine to the Royal Society.






6. New Amsterdam founded by the Dutch WestIndia Company in North America.






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






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






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






10. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






11. John Locke publishes his first 'Letter Concerning Toleration'.






12. Fronde civil war in France.






13. Mehmed K






14. 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.






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






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






17. Aurochs go extinct.






18. Battle of L






19. Torture is outlawed in England.






20. Polish






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






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






23. Battle of L






24. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






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






26. Naval Battle of the Downs






27. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






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






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






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






31. The Commonwealth of England ends and the monarchy is brought back during the English Restoration.






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






33. The Karposh rebellion is crushed in present-day Republic of Macedonia - Skopje is retaken by the Ottoman Turks. Karposh is killed - and the rebels are defeated. Giles Cory was pressed to death during the Salem witch trials in the 1690s






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






35. The Deluge wars leave Polish






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






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






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






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






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






41. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






42. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






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






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






45. Famine in France kills 2 million.






46. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






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






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






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






50. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.