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17th Century Timeline

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






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






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






4. Fronde civil war in France.






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






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






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






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






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






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






11. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






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






13. Franco-Dutch War.






14. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






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






16. Mehmed K






17. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






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






19. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






20. The Great Plague of Seville.






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






22. The Portuguese Restoration War led to the end of the Iberian Union.






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






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






25. The Bank of England is established.






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






27. Edict of Fontainebleau outlaws Protestantism in France. King Charles II dies






28. The Great Plague of London.






29. The Siege of Derry.






30. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






31. Mehmed K






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






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






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






35. The Great Plague of London.






36. Elizabeth I of England dies and is succeeded by her cousin King James VI of Scotland - uniting the crowns of Scotland and England.






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






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






39. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






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






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






42. Emperor Ferdinand II defeats the Bohemian rebels in the Battle of White Mountain.






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






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






45. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






46. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






47. The fortresses of Veszpr






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






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






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