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17th Century Timeline

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2. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






3. The Bohemian Revolt precipitates the Thirty Years' War which devastates Europe in the years 1618






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






5. The Karposh rebellion is crushed in present-day Republic of Macedonia - Skopje is retaken by the Ottoman Turks. Karposh is killed - and the rebels are defeated. Giles Cory was pressed to death during the Salem witch trials in the 1690s






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






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






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






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






10. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






11. The fortresses of Veszpr






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






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






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






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






16. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






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






18. Emperor Ferdinand II defeats the Bohemian rebels in the Battle of White Mountain.






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






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






21. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






22. Battle of L






23. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






24. William ascends to the throne over England - Scotland - and Ireland.






25. Mount Vesuvius erupts






26. Emperor Ferdinand II defeats the Bohemian rebels in the Battle of White Mountain.






27. The Great Plague of Seville.






28. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






29. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






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






31. The Defenestration of Prague






32. Polish






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






34. The Irish Rebellion.






35. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






36. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






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






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






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






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






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






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






43. Battle of N






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






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47. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






48. Time of Troubles - Vasili IV becomes Tzar of Russia.






49. Lynching of Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis de Witt in the Hague






50. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.