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17th Century Timeline

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1. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






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






3. The earliest known first-class cricket match took place in Sussex.






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






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






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






7. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






8. The Ottomans capture Crete from the Venetians after the Siege of Candia.






9. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






10. The Great Plague of London.






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






12. Lynching of Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis de Witt in the Hague






13. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






14. Mount Vesuvius erupts






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






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






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






18. The Russian famine of 1601






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






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






21. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






22. The College of William and Mary is founded in Williamsburg - Virginia by a royal charter.






23. Polish






24. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






25. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






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






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






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






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






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






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






32. The Deluge wars leave Polish






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






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






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






36. Torture is outlawed in England.






37. King Charles was compelled to summon Parliament due to the revolt of the Scots.






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






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






40. The Deluge wars leave Polish






41. The Brownist Pilgrims arrive in the Mayflower at Cape Cod






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






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






44. Famine in France kills 2 million.






45. Lithuanian Civil War






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






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






48. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






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






50. Battle of N







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