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17th Century Timeline

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






2. Polish






3. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






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






5. 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.'






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






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






8. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






9. 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






10. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






11. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






12. The Grand Alliance sought to stop French expansion during the Nine Years War.






13. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






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






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






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






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






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






19. The last remaining Moriscos (Moors who had nominally converted to Christianity) in Spain are expelled.






20. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






21. The Great Plague of London.






22. The Commonwealth of England ends and the monarchy is brought back during the English Restoration.






23. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






24. Franco-Dutch War.






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






26. Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before theInquisition.






27. Mary II of England dies






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






29. The Great Plague of London.






30. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






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






32. Famine in France kills 2 million.






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






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






35. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






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






37. The Irish Rebellion.






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






39. Quebec City founded by Samuel de Champlain in New France (present-day Canada).






40. Famine in France kills 2 million.






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






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






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






44. The earliest known first-class cricket match took place in Sussex.






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






46. The Ottomans capture Crete.






47. The Bank of England is established.






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






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






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