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17th Century Timeline

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






2. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






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






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






5. Naval Battle of the Downs






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






7. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






8. The fortresses of Veszpr






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






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






11. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






12. The Manchu conquer China ending the Ming Dynasty. The subsequent Qing Dynasty rules until 1912.






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






14. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






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






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






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






18. Torture is outlawed in England.






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






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






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






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






23. The death of Miyamoto Musashi - legendary Japanese Samurai warrior - of natural causes.






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






25. Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before theInquisition.






26. British troops capture New Amsterdam and rename it New York.






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






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






29. Tokugawa Ieyasu seizes control of Japan and establishes the Tokugawa Shogunate - beginning the Edo period that lasts until 1869.






30. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






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






32. The Great Fire of London.






33. As chief minister - Cardinal Richelieu centralises power in France.






34. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






35. Battle of L






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






37. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






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






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






40. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






41. British troops capture New Amsterdam and rename it New York.






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






43. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






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






45. Franco-Dutch War.






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






47. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






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






49. 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






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







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