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17th Century Timeline

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






2. Torture is outlawed in England.






3. Famine in France kills 2 million.






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






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






6. Mary II of England dies






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






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






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






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






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






12. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






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






14. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






15. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






16. The Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth army defeats combined Russian- Swedish forces at the Battle of Klushino and conquers Moscow.






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






18. The Irish Rebellion.






19. 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






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






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






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






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






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






25. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






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






27. La Salle explores the length of the Mississippi River and claims Louisiana for France.






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






29. The Peace of Westphalia ends the Thirty Years' War and the Eighty Years' War and marks the ends of Spain and the Holy Roman Empire as major European powers.






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






31. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






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






33. Mount Vesuvius erupts






34. Emperor Fasilides founds the city of Gondar - which becomes the capital of Ethiopia for the next two centuries.






35. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






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






37. The Russian famine of 1601






38. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






39. The Great Plague of London.






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






41. Naval Battle of the Downs






42. Famine in Finland wipes out almost a third of the population.






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






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






45. Polish-Ottoman War.






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






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






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






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






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