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17th Century Timeline

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1. Sultan Mehmed IV - advised by Kara Mustafa - decides to disregard the existing peace treaty with Leopold I - due to expire in 1684.






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






3. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






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






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






6. Louis XIV accepts the Spanish crown on behalf of his grandson Philip of Anjou - triggering the War of the Spanish Succession






7. William ascends to the throne over England - Scotland - and Ireland.






8. Lithuanian Civil War






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






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






11. Emperor Fasilides founds the city of Gondar - which becomes the capital of Ethiopia for the next two centuries.






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






13. The Ottomans capture Crete from the Venetians after the Siege of Candia.






14. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






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






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






17. The Long War between the Ottoman Empire and Austria is ended with the Peace of Zsitvatorok - Austria abandons Transylvania.






18. Lynching of Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis de Witt in the Hague






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






20. The Hudson's Bay Company is founded in Canada.






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






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






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






24. Aurochs go extinct.






25. Naval Battle of the Downs






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






27. Emperor Fasilides founds the city of Gondar - which becomes the capital of Ethiopia for the next two centuries.






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






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






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






31. 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






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






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






34. Quebec City founded by Samuel de Champlain in New France (present-day Canada).






35. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






36. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






37. The Irish Rebellion.






38. Mary II of England dies






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






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






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






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






43. The Great Plague of Seville.






44. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






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






46. Louis XIV accepts the Spanish crown on behalf of his grandson Philip of Anjou - triggering the War of the Spanish Succession






47. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






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






49. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






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