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17th Century Timeline

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1. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






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






3. 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






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






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






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






7. Fronde civil war in France.






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






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






10. Franco-Dutch War.






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






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






13. 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.






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






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






16. The Mughal Empire nearly bans the EastIndia Company in response to pirate Henry Every's capture of the Ganj-i-Sawai






17. The Great Plague of Seville.






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






19. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






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






21. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






22. Seven-year-old Mehmed IV becomes sultan.






23. The Great Fire of London.






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






25. Torture is outlawed in England.






26. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






27. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Pernambuco and founds Dutch Brazil.






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






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






30. The fortresses of Veszpr






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






32. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






33. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






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






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






36. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






37. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






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






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






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






41. 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.'






42. Lithuanian Civil War






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






44. Battle of L






45. The Irish Rebellion.






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






47. English Civil War ends with the Parliamentarian victory at the Battle of Worcester.






48. The Ottomans capture Crete.






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






50. The fortresses of Veszpr