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17th Century Timeline

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1. The Bank of England is established.






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






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






4. Shimabara Rebellion of Japanese Christians - ronin and peasants against Edo.






5. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






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






7. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






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






9. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






10. Ottoman campaign to help the Ukrainian Cossacks. John Sobieski defeats the Ottomans at the second battle of Khotyn (1673).






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






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






13. The Great Plague of Seville.






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






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






16. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






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






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






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






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






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






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






23. The Ottomans capture Crete from the Venetians after the Siege of Candia.






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






25. Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge founded.






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






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






28. Torture is outlawed in England.






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






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






31. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






32. Louis XIV accepts the Spanish crown on behalf of his grandson Philip of Anjou - triggering the War of the Spanish Succession






33. Beginning of English Civil War - conflict will end in 1651 with the execution of King Charles I - abolishment of the monarchy and the establishment of the supremacy of Parliament over the king.






34. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






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






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






37. 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.'






38. Thomas Savery demonstrates his first steam engine to the Royal Society.






39. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






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






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






42. Ottoman campaign to help the Ukrainian Cossacks. John Sobieski defeats the Ottomans at the second battle of Khotyn (1673).






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






44. The Siege of Derry.






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






46. Famine in France kills 2 million.






47. The Battle of Vienna finishes the Ottoman Empire's hegemony in south-eastern Europe.






48. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






49. 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.






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