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17th Century Timeline

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1. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






2. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






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






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






5. The Irish Rebellion.






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






7. The Bank of England is established.






8. The Raid on the Medway during the Second Anglo-Dutch War.






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






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






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






12. The Netherlands and Spain agree to a Twelve Years' Truce in the Eighty Years' War.






13. Wars of the Three Kingdoms - civil wars throughout Scotland - Ireland - and England.






14. Mary II of England dies






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






16. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






17. Battle of Kinsale - one of the most important battles in Irish history - fought.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






25. Ren






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






27. John Evelyn's forestry book - Sylva - is published in England.






28. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






29. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






30. The Bank of England is established.






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






32. 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.'






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






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






35. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






36. Franco-Dutch War.






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






38. The Siege of Derry.






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






40. Polish






41. Lithuanian Civil War






42. The Irish Rebellion.






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






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






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






46. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






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






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






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






50. Franco-Dutch War.