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17th Century Timeline

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1. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






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






3. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






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






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






6. The Long War between the Ottoman Empire and Austria is ended with the Peace of Zsitvatorok - Austria abandons Transylvania.






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






8. Polish-Ottoman War.






9. Michael the Brave (first unificator of Romania) - voivode of Wallachia - Moldavia and Transylvania - is assassinated by the order of the Habsburg general Giorgio Basta at C






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






11. The Long War between the Ottoman Empire and Austria is ended with the Peace of Zsitvatorok - Austria abandons Transylvania.






12. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






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






14. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






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






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






18. The Grand Alliance sought to stop French expansion during the Nine Years War.






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






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






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






23. Fronde civil war in France.






24. The Bank of England is established.






25. The Tokugawa Shogunate institutes Sakoku- foreigners are expelled and no one is allowed to enter or leave Japan.






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






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






28. Fronde civil war in France.






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






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






31. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






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






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






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






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36. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






37. Famine in France kills 2 million.






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






39. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






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






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






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






43. Dutch EastIndia Company founded. Its success contributes to the Dutch Golden Age.






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






45. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






46. China conquers the Kingdom of Tungning and annexes Taiwan.






47. Cardinal Richelieu allies with Swedish Protestant forces in the Thirty Years' War to counter Ferdinand II's expansion.






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






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






50. The Great Plague of London.