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17th Century Timeline

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1. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






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






3. The Defenestration of Prague






4. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






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






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






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






8. The Deluge wars leave Polish






9. Jamestown massacre - Algonquian natives kill 347 English settlers outside Jamestown - Virginia (1/3 of the colony's population) and burn the Henricus settlement.






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






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






12. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






13. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






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






15. Mary II of England dies






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






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






18. The fortresses of Veszpr






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






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






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






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






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






24. The Irish Rebellion.






25. Aurochs go extinct.






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






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






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






29. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






30. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






31. The Siege of Derry.






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






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






34. Mehmed K






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






36. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






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






38. Franco-Dutch War.






39. The Ottomans capture Crete.






40. The Russian famine of 1601






41. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






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






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






44. The Great Plague of Seville.






45. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






46. Cardinal Richelieu lays siege to Protestant La Rochelle which eventually capitulates.






47. Jamestown - Virginia - is settled as what would become the first permanent English colony in North America.






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






49. The Battle of Killiecrankie is fought between Jacobite and Williamite forces in Highland Perthshire






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