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17th Century Timeline

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1. The Siege of Derry.






2. Lithuanian Civil War






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






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






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






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7. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






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






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






10. The Commonwealth of England ends and the monarchy is brought back during the English Restoration.






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






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






13. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






14. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






15. A Habsburg council of war is held in Vienna.






16. The Bank of England is established.






17. Polish-Ottoman War.






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






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






20. The Ottomans capture Crete.






21. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






22. Elizabeth I of England dies and is succeeded by her cousin King James VI of Scotland - uniting the crowns of Scotland and England.






23. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






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






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27. Lithuanian Civil War






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






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






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






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






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






33. Wars of the Three Kingdoms - civil wars throughout Scotland - Ireland - and England.






34. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






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






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






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






38. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






39. Russia supplants Sweden as the dominant Baltic power after the Great Northern War.






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






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






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






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






44. The Great Fire of London.






45. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






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






47. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






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






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






50. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.