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17th Century Timeline

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1. The Great Plague of Seville.






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






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






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






5. Franco-Dutch War.






6. 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






7. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






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






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






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 Bank of England is established.






12. Battle of N






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






14. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






15. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






16. Naval Battle of the Downs






17. After modernizing his army - Abbas I expands the Persian Empire by capturing territory from the Ottomans and the Portuguese.






18. The Great Fire of London.






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






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






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






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






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






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






25. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






26. 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.'






27. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






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






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






30. British troops capture New Amsterdam and rename it New York.






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






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






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






34. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






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






36. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






37. La Salle explores the length of the Mississippi River and claims Louisiana for France.






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






39. Tokugawa Ieyasu seizes control of Japan and establishes the Tokugawa Shogunate - beginning the Edo period that lasts until 1869.






40. Mary II of England dies






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






42. Mehmed K






43. The Great Plague of London.






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






45. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






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






47. La Salle explores the length of the Mississippi River and claims Louisiana for France.






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






49. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






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