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17th Century Timeline

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1. The Great Plague of London.






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






3. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






4. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






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






6. Aurochs go extinct.






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






8. The Irish Rebellion.






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






10. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






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






12. Ottoman campaign to help the Ukrainian Cossacks. John Sobieski defeats the Ottomans at the second battle of Khotyn (1673).






13. Capture of Ormuz; The island of Hormuz was captured by an Anglo-Persian force from Portuguese.






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






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






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






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






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






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






21. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






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






23. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






24. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






25. Bethlen Gabor allies with the Ottomans and an invasion of Moldavia takes place. The Polish suffer a disaster at Cecora on the River Prut.






26. After modernizing his army - Abbas I expands the Persian Empire by capturing territory from the Ottomans and the Portuguese.






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






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






29. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






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






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






32. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






33. Franco-Dutch War.






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






35. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






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






37. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






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






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






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






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






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






43. The Russian famine of 1601






44. The Netherlands and Spain agree to a Twelve Years' Truce in the Eighty Years' War.






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






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






47. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






48. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






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50. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th