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17th Century Timeline

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






2. The Great Plague of London.






3. Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before theInquisition.






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






5. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






6. The Siege of Derry.






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






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






9. 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






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






11. The Great Fire of London.






12. Famine in France kills 2 million.






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






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






16. Fronde civil war in France.






17. 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






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






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






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






21. The Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas - the oldest existing university in Asia - established by the Dominican Order in Manila






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






23. 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






24. The Time of Troubles in Russia ends with the establishment of the House of Romanov which rules until 1917.






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






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






27. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






28. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






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






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






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






32. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






33. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






34. The Great Plague of Seville.






35. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






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






37. The Treaty of Westminster ends the war between England and the Republic of the United Provinces.






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






39. Captain Willem Janszoon and his crew aboard the Dutch EastIndia Company ship Duyfken becomes the first recorded Europeans to sight and make landfall in Australia.






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






41. Battle of L






42. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






43. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






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






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






46. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






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






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






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






50. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.







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