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17th Century Timeline

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






2. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






3. 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.'






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






5. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






6. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






7. The Siege of Derry.






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






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






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






11. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






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






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






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






15. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






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






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






18. The fortresses of Veszpr






19. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






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21. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






29. 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






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






31. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






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






33. The Irish Rebellion.






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






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






37. The Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas - the oldest existing university in Asia - established by the Dominican Order in Manila






38. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






46. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






47. Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge founded.






48. Battle of L






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






50. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.