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17th Century Timeline

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






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






3. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






4. The Deluge wars leave Polish






5. The Great Fire of London.






6. The Irish Rebellion.






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






8. 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.






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






10. Famine in France kills 2 million.






11. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






12. Torture is outlawed in England.






13. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






14. Naval Battle of the Downs






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






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






17. Thomas Savery demonstrates his first steam engine to the Royal Society.






18. Capture of Ormuz; The island of Hormuz was captured by an Anglo-Persian force from Portuguese.






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






20. The Defenestration of Prague






21. The Great Plague of Seville.






22. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






23. Mount Vesuvius erupts






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






25. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






26. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






27. After modernizing his army - Abbas I expands the Persian Empire by capturing territory from the Ottomans and the Portuguese.






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






29. Sultan Mehmed IV - advised by Kara Mustafa - decides to disregard the existing peace treaty with Leopold I - due to expire in 1684.






30. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






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






32. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






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






34. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






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






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






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






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






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






40. Siamese revolution of 1688 ousted French influence and virtually severed all ties with the West until the 19th century.






41. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






42. 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






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






44. Dutch EastIndia Company founded. Its success contributes to the Dutch Golden Age.






45. Mount Vesuvius erupts






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






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






48. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






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






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