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17th Century Timeline

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






2. The 1700 Cascadia earthquake (magnitude 9) occurs off the coast of the Pacific Northwest; Japan is struck by a tsunami.






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






4. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






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






6. The Bank of England is established.






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






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






9. Lithuanian Civil War






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






11. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






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






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






14. The Defenestration of Prague






15. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






16. Polish-Ottoman War.






17. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






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






19. The Bohemian Revolt precipitates the Thirty Years' War which devastates Europe in the years 1618






20. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






21. Maffeo Barberini is elected Pope Urban VIII at the Papal conclave of 1623.






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






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






24. The Great Plague of London.






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






26. Pedro de Peralta - governor of New Mexico - establishes the settlement of Santa Fe.






27. The fortresses of Veszpr






28. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






29. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






30. Mary II of England dies






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






32. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






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






34. Battle of L






35. The Treaty of Westminster ends the war between England and the Republic of the United Provinces.






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






37. The Deluge wars leave Polish






38. The Great Fire of London.






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






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






41. 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.






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






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






44. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






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






46. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






47. Maffeo Barberini is elected Pope Urban VIII at the Papal conclave of 1623.






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






49. The Bank of England is established.






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