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17th Century Timeline

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1. Famine in France kills 2 million.






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






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






4. Beginning of English Civil War - conflict will end in 1651 with the execution of King Charles I - abolishment of the monarchy and the establishment of the supremacy of Parliament over the king.






5. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






6. Mehmed K






7. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






8. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






9. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






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






11. Jacques Aymar-Vernay - who later reintroduced Dowsing into popular use in Europe - is born.






12. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






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






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






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






16. Beginning of English Civil War - conflict will end in 1651 with the execution of King Charles I - abolishment of the monarchy and the establishment of the supremacy of Parliament over the king.






17. Mount Vesuvius erupts






18. Ren






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






20. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






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






22. King Charles was compelled to summon Parliament due to the revolt of the Scots.






23. Battle of L






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






25. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






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






27. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






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






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






30. The Ottomans capture Crete.






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






32. 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.






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






34. The Siege of Derry.






35. Mary II of England dies






36. British troops capture New Amsterdam and rename it New York.






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






38. The Defenestration of Prague






39. Fronde civil war in France.






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






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






42. The Brownist Pilgrims arrive in the Mayflower at Cape Cod






43. The Great Plague of London.






44. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






45. British troops capture New Amsterdam and rename it New York.






46. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






47. Lithuanian Civil War






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






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






50. China conquers the Kingdom of Tungning and annexes Taiwan.