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17th Century Timeline

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






2. 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.






3. The Great Plague of Seville.






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






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






6. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






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






8. The Defenestration of Prague






9. Antoni van Leeuwenhoek is the first to observe microbes with a homemade microscope - using samples he collected from his teeth scrapings - raindrops - and his own feces. He calls them 'animalcules.'






10. The Great Turkish War halts the Ottoman Empire's expansion into Europe.






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






12. Mary II of England dies






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






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






15. Mary II of England dies






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






17. Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman achieves the first recorded European sighting of New Zealand.






18. Torture is outlawed in England.






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






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






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






22. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






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






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






26. The Great Turkish War halts the Ottoman Empire's expansion into Europe.






27. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






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






29. Battle of L






30. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






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






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






33. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






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






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






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






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






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






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






40. 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






41. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






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






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






44. Ren






45. The last remaining Moriscos (Moors who had nominally converted to Christianity) in Spain are expelled.






46. 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.






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






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






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






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







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