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






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






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






5. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






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






7. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






8. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






9. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






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






11. Peter the Great becomes joint ruler of Russia (sole tsar in 1696).






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






13. The fortresses of Veszpr






14. Polish






15. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






16. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






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






18. Cardinal Richelieu allies with Swedish Protestant forces in the Thirty Years' War to counter Ferdinand II's expansion.






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






20. 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






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






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






23. The Manchu conquer China ending the Ming Dynasty. The subsequent Qing Dynasty rules until 1912.






24. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






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






26. Ren






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






28. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






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






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






31. Koxinga captures Taiwan from the Dutch and founds the Kingdom of Tungning which rules until 1683.






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






33. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






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






35. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






36. The reign of the Kangxi Emperor of China begins.






37. British troops capture New Amsterdam and rename it New York.






38. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






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






40. Fronde civil war in France.






41. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






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






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






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






45. The Irish Rebellion.






46. The Grand Alliance sought to stop French expansion during the Nine Years War.






47. Aurochs go extinct.






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






49. The Pueblo Revolt drives the Spanish out of New Mexico until 1692.






50. Famine in Finland wipes out almost a third of the population.







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