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17th Century Timeline

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1. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






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






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






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






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






6. Peace Treaty of Lisbon between Spain and Portugal recognizes Portugal as independent country.






7. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






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






9. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






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






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






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






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






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






15. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






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






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






18. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






19. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






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






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






22. The fortresses of Veszpr






23. The Irish Rebellion.






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






25. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






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






27. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






28. Mount Vesuvius erupts






29. The Battle of Killiecrankie is fought between Jacobite and Williamite forces in Highland Perthshire






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






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






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






33. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






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






35. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






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






37. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






38. St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican completed.






39. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






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






41. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






50. Russia and the Ottoman Empire commence the Russo-Turkish Wars.