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17th Century Timeline

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1. Captain Willem Janszoon and his crew aboard the Dutch EastIndia Company ship Duyfken becomes the first recorded Europeans to sight and make landfall in Australia.






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






3. The Ottomans capture Crete.






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






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






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






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






9. Polish-Ottoman War.






10. Captain Willem Janszoon and his crew aboard the Dutch EastIndia Company ship Duyfken becomes the first recorded Europeans to sight and make landfall in Australia.






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






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






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






14. Fronde civil war in France.






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






16. The Great Plague of London.






17. Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge founded.






18. Ren






19. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






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






21. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






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






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






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






25. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






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






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






28. The Defenestration of Prague






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






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






31. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






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






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






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






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






36. Aurochs go extinct.






37. 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






38. Lithuanian Civil War






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






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






41. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






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






43. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






44. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






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






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






47. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






48. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






49. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






50. Naval Battle of the Downs