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17th Century Timeline

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1. The Irish Rebellion.






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






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






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






5. The Bank of England is established.






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






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






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






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






10. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






11. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






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






13. Mary II of England dies






14. Disagreements between the Farnese and Barberini Pope Urban VIII escalate into the Wars of Castro and last until 1649.






15. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






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






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






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






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






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21. The Treaty of Zurawno brings Polish-Ottoman hostilities to a halt.






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






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






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






25. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






26. The Deluge wars leave Polish






27. Sultan Mehmed IV - advised by Kara Mustafa - decides to disregard the existing peace treaty with Leopold I - due to expire in 1684.






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






29. Polish-Ottoman War.






30. St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican completed.






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






32. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






33. The Bank of England is established.






34. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






35. Lithuanian Civil War






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






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






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






39. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






40. The fortresses of Veszpr






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






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






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






44. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






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






46. Jacques Aymar-Vernay - who later reintroduced Dowsing into popular use in Europe - is born.






47. 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.






48. Bethlen Gabor - Prince of Transylvania joins Protestant Rebels.






49. Quebec City founded by Samuel de Champlain in New France (present-day Canada).






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