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17th Century Timeline

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1. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






2. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






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






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






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






6. The Bank of England is established.






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






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






9. The Great Plague of London.






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11. China conquers the Kingdom of Tungning and annexes Taiwan.






12. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






13. Aurochs go extinct.






14. Giovanni Battista Pamphili is elected PopeInnocent X at the Papal conclave of 1644.






15. 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.






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






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






18. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






19. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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26. The Ottomans capture Crete.






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






28. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






36. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






37. The Great Fire of London.






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






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






40. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






41. 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.






42. Battle of N






43. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






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






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






46. Cardinal Richelieu lays siege to Protestant La Rochelle which eventually capitulates.






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






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






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






50. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.