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17th Century Timeline

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






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






3. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






4. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






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






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






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






8. Emperor Fasilides founds the city of Gondar - which becomes the capital of Ethiopia for the next two centuries.






9. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






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






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






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






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






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






15. Mehmed K






16. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






17. Cardinal Richelieu allies with Swedish Protestant forces in the Thirty Years' War to counter Ferdinand II's expansion.






18. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






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






20. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Bahia in Brazil.






21. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






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






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






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






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






26. Polish-Ottoman War.






27. The Brownist Pilgrims arrive in the Mayflower at Cape Cod






28. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






29. Polish






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






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






32. 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.






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






34. Polish






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






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






37. The Great Fire of London.






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






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






40. The Defenestration of Prague






41. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






42. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






43. The Great Plague of London.






44. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






45. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






46. The Great Fire of London.






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






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






49. Torture is outlawed in England.






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