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17th Century Timeline

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






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






3. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






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






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






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






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






8. 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.






9. The Irish Rebellion.






10. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






11. The Irish Rebellion.






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






13. The death of Miyamoto Musashi - legendary Japanese Samurai warrior - of natural causes.






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






15. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






16. Franco-Dutch War.






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






18. Polish






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






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






21. France takes full political and military control over its colonial possessions in New France.






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






23. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






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






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






26. Lithuanian Civil War






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






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






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






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






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






32. The Russian famine of 1601






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






34. The Siege of Derry.






35. Polish-Ottoman War.






36. The Netherlands and Spain agree to a Twelve Years' Truce in the Eighty Years' War.






37. The Siege of Derry.






38. Cape Town founded by the Dutch EastIndia Company in South Africa.






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






40. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






41. Bethlen Gabor allies with the Ottomans and an invasion of Moldavia takes place. The Polish suffer a disaster at Cecora on the River Prut.






42. Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman achieves the first recorded European sighting of New Zealand.






43. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






44. Jacques Aymar-Vernay - who later reintroduced Dowsing into popular use in Europe - is born.






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






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






47. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






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






49. The Great Plague of Seville.






50. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.







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