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17th Century Timeline

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






2. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






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






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






5. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






6. Mehmed K






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






8. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






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






10. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






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






12. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Bahia in Brazil.






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






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






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






16. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






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






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






19. Battle of L






20. The Great Plague of Seville.






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






22. 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






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






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






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






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






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






28. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






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






30. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






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






32. Peace Treaty of Lisbon between Spain and Portugal recognizes Portugal as independent country.






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






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






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






36. Fronde civil war in France.






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






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






39. Battle of Kinsale - one of the most important battles in Irish history - fought.






40. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






41. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






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






43. La Salle explores the length of the Mississippi River and claims Louisiana for France.






44. The Great Fire of London.






45. Mehmed K






46. Fronde civil war in France.






47. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






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






49. The Treaty of Karlowitz ends the Great Turkish War.






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