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17th Century Timeline

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1. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






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






3. The Irish Rebellion.






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






5. 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.






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






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






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






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






10. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






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






12. Lithuanian Civil War






13. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






14. The Mughal Empire nearly bans the EastIndia Company in response to pirate Henry Every's capture of the Ganj-i-Sawai






15. Battle of N






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






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






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






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






20. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






21. The Mughal Empire nearly bans the EastIndia Company in response to pirate Henry Every's capture of the Ganj-i-Sawai






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






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






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






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






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






27. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






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






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






30. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






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






32. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






33. The Long War between the Ottoman Empire and Austria is ended with the Peace of Zsitvatorok - Austria abandons Transylvania.






34. Torture is outlawed in England.






35. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






36. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






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






38. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






39. Mary II of England dies






40. Famine in France kills 2 million.






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






42. The Great Plague of Seville.






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






44. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






45. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






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






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






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






49. The Bank of England is established.






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







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