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17th Century Timeline

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






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






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






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






5. Polish-Ottoman War.






6. The Treaty of Karlowitz ends the Great Turkish War.






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






8. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






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






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






11. The Battle of St. Gotthard - Count Raimondo Montecuccoli defeats the Ottomans. The Peace of Vasvar






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






13. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Bahia in Brazil.






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






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






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






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






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






19. The Portuguese Restoration War led to the end of the Iberian Union.






20. The Great Plague of London.






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






22. Ren






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






24. Naval Battle of the Downs






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






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






27. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






28. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






29. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






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






31. The Russian famine of 1601






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






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






34. Polish-Ottoman War.






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






36. Ren






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






38. Torture is outlawed in England.






39. Mary II of England dies






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






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






42. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






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






44. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






45. The Great Plague of Seville.






46. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






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






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






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






50. The reign of the Kangxi Emperor of China begins.