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17th Century Timeline

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






2. The Deluge wars leave Polish






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






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






6. Michael the Brave (first unificator of Romania) - voivode of Wallachia - Moldavia and Transylvania - is assassinated by the order of the Habsburg general Giorgio Basta at C






7. The Ottomans capture Crete.






8. Beginning of English Civil War - conflict will end in 1651 with the execution of King Charles I - abolishment of the monarchy and the establishment of the supremacy of Parliament over the king.






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






10. Bethlen Gabor allies with the Ottomans and an invasion of Moldavia takes place. The Polish suffer a disaster at Cecora on the River Prut.






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






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






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






14. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






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






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






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






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






19. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






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






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






22. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






23. The Great Plague of Seville.






24. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






25. Michael the Brave (first unificator of Romania) - voivode of Wallachia - Moldavia and Transylvania - is assassinated by the order of the Habsburg general Giorgio Basta at C






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






27. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






28. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






29. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






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






31. Mehmed K






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






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






34. The earliest known first-class cricket match took place in Sussex.






35. Cardinal Richelieu lays siege to Protestant La Rochelle which eventually capitulates.






36. The Great Plague of London.






37. Lithuanian Civil War






38. Emperor Fasilides expels the Catholic Patriarch Afonso Mendes and several Jesuit missionaries from Ethiopia.






39. Giovanni Battista Pamphili is elected PopeInnocent X at the Papal conclave of 1644.






40. Russia supplants Sweden as the dominant Baltic power after the Great Northern War.






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






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






43. The Russian famine of 1601






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






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






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






47. The Time of Troubles in Russia ends with the establishment of the House of Romanov which rules until 1917.






48. Polish-Ottoman War.






49. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






50. Aurochs go extinct.






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