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17th Century Timeline

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1. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






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






3. Lithuanian Civil War






4. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






5. John Evelyn's forestry book - Sylva - is published in England.






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






7. The Peace of Westphalia ends the Thirty Years' War and the Eighty Years' War and marks the ends of Spain and the Holy Roman Empire as major European powers.






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






9. Jamestown massacre - Algonquian natives kill 347 English settlers outside Jamestown - Virginia (1/3 of the colony's population) and burn the Henricus settlement.






10. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






20. The death of Miyamoto Musashi - legendary Japanese Samurai warrior - of natural causes.






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






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






23. Naval Battle of the Downs






24. The Peace of Westphalia ends the Thirty Years' War and the Eighty Years' War and marks the ends of Spain and the Holy Roman Empire as major European powers.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






34. Polish-Ottoman War.






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






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






37. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






38. Aurochs go extinct.






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






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






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






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






43. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






44. Koxinga captures Taiwan from the Dutch and founds the Kingdom of Tungning which rules until 1683.






45. The Tokugawa Shogunate institutes Sakoku- foreigners are expelled and no one is allowed to enter or leave Japan.






46. The Great Plague of London.






47. The Great Plague of London.






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






49. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






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