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17th Century Timeline

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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






9. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






10. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






11. The Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth army defeats combined Russian- Swedish forces at the Battle of Klushino and conquers Moscow.






12. The Russian famine of 1601






13. Time of Troubles - Vasili IV becomes Tzar of Russia.






14. Battle of Kinsale - one of the most important battles in Irish history - fought.






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






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






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






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






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






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






21. Polish-Ottoman War.






22. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






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






24. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






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






26. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






27. The fortresses of Veszpr






28. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






29. Mount Vesuvius erupts






30. A Habsburg council of war is held in Vienna.






31. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






32. Polish






33. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






34. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






35. Michael the Brave (first unificator of Romania) - voivode of Wallachia - Moldavia and Transylvania - is assassinated by the order of the Habsburg general Giorgio Basta at C






36. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Bahia in Brazil.






37. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






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






39. Battle of N






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






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






42. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






43. 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.'






44. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






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






46. Battle of N






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






48. The Defenestration of Prague






49. Aurochs go extinct.






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







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