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17th Century Timeline

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






2. Mount Vesuvius erupts






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






4. Naval Battle of the Downs






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






6. 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






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






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






9. Lynching of Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis de Witt in the Hague






10. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






11. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






12. The Siege of Derry.






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






14. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






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






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






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






18. The Great Plague of Seville.






19. The Time of Troubles in Russia ends with the establishment of the House of Romanov which rules until 1917.






20. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






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






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






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






24. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






25. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






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






27. New Amsterdam founded by the Dutch WestIndia Company in North America.






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






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






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






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






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






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






36. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






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






38. Jamestown - Virginia - is settled as what would become the first permanent English colony in North America.






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






40. Famine in France kills 2 million.






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






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






43. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






44. Polish-Ottoman War.






45. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






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






47. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






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






49. Polish






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







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