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17th Century Timeline

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






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






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






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






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






7. Battle of N






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






9. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






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






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






12. Sultan Mehmed IV - advised by Kara Mustafa - decides to disregard the existing peace treaty with Leopold I - due to expire in 1684.






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






14. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






15. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






16. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






17. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






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






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






20. Battle of N






21. The Bohemian Revolt precipitates the Thirty Years' War which devastates Europe in the years 1618






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






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






24. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






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






26. The Bohemian Revolt precipitates the Thirty Years' War which devastates Europe in the years 1618






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






28. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






29. The Defenestration of Prague






30. The Manchus start invading China. Their conquest eventually topples the Ming Dynasty.






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






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33. Russia and the Ottoman Empire commence the Russo-Turkish Wars.






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






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






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






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






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






39. The Irish Rebellion.






40. The Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas - the oldest existing university in Asia - established by the Dominican Order in Manila






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






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






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






44. Battle of L






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






46. 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.'






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






48. The Glorious Revolution starts with the Dutch Republic invading England - England becomes a constitutional monarchy.






49. 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






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