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17th Century Timeline

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1. Franco-Dutch War.






2. Pedro de Peralta - governor of New Mexico - establishes the settlement of Santa Fe.






3. Mount Vesuvius erupts






4. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






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






6. China conquers the Kingdom of Tungning and annexes Taiwan.






7. Portugal defeats the Kongo Empire at the Battle of Mbwila.






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






9. Battle of L






10. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






11. Mary II of England dies






12. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






13. Mount Vesuvius erupts






14. 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.






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






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






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






18. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






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






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






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






22. Disagreements between the Farnese and Barberini Pope Urban VIII escalate into the Wars of Castro and last until 1649.






23. Ren






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






25. 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.'






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






27. Fronde civil war in France.






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






29. Famine in France kills 2 million.






30. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






31. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






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






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






34. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






35. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






36. 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






37. The Great Plague of Seville.






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






39. The Northern Wars cement Sweden's rise as a Great Power.






40. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






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






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






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






44. The Manchus start invading China. Their conquest eventually topples the Ming Dynasty.






45. Aurochs go extinct.






46. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






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






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






49. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






50. The Irish Rebellion.