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17th Century Timeline

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






2. Fronde civil war in France.






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






4. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






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






6. Battle of L






7. 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






8. Polish-Ottoman War.






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






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






11. Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman achieves the first recorded European sighting of New Zealand.






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






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






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






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






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






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






18. The Treaty of Nerchinsk established a border between Russia and China.






19. Torture is outlawed in England.






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






21. Aurochs go extinct.






22. Famine in France kills 2 million.






23. Siamese revolution of 1688 ousted French influence and virtually severed all ties with the West until the 19th century.






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






25. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






26. 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






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






28. King Charles was compelled to summon Parliament due to the revolt of the Scots.






29. Mount Vesuvius erupts






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






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






32. Lithuanian Civil War






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






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






35. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






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






37. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






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






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






40. 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.






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






42. Siamese revolution of 1688 ousted French influence and virtually severed all ties with the West until the 19th century.






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






44. The Great Plague of London.






45. The War of Devolution; France invades the Netherlands. The Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle (1668) brings this to a halt.






46. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






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






48. The Russian famine of 1601






49. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






50. 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.'