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17th Century Timeline

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






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






3. Battle of L






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






5. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






6. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






7. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






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






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






10. The Irish Rebellion.






11. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






12. Jamestown massacre - Algonquian natives kill 347 English settlers outside Jamestown - Virginia (1/3 of the colony's population) and burn the Henricus settlement.






13. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






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






15. 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.'






16. Shimabara Rebellion of Japanese Christians - ronin and peasants against Edo.






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






18. Lithuanian Civil War






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






20. Polish






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






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






23. The Siege of Derry.






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






25. After his father Shah Jahan completes the Taj Mahal - his son Aurangzeb deposes him as ruler of the Mughal Empire.






26. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






27. Aurochs go extinct.






28. Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman achieves the first recorded European sighting of New Zealand.






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






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






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






32. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






33. Aurochs go extinct.






34. Lithuanian Civil War






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






36. The Russian famine of 1601






37. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






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






39. Torture is outlawed in England.






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






41. The Great Plague of Seville.






42. 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






43. The Battle of Chocim - Poles and Cossacks under Jan Karol Chodkiewicz defeat the Ottomans.






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






45. Flight of the Earls (the fleeing of most of the native Gaelic aristocracy) occurs from County Donegal in the west of Ulster in Ireland.






46. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Pernambuco and founds Dutch Brazil.






47. Disagreements between the Farnese and Barberini Pope Urban VIII escalate into the Wars of Castro and last until 1649.






48. The Defenestration of Prague






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






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