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17th Century Timeline

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






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






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






4. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






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6. Emperor Fasilides founds the city of Gondar - which becomes the capital of Ethiopia for the next two centuries.






7. The Battle of St. Gotthard - Count Raimondo Montecuccoli defeats the Ottomans. The Peace of Vasvar






8. Franco-Dutch War.






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






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






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






12. The Treaty of Karlowitz ends the Great Turkish War.






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






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






15. The Battle of Chocim - Poles and Cossacks under Jan Karol Chodkiewicz defeat the Ottomans.






16. William ascends to the throne over England - Scotland - and Ireland.






17. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






18. The Treaty of Nerchinsk established a border between Russia and China.






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






20. The Manchu conquer China ending the Ming Dynasty. The subsequent Qing Dynasty rules until 1912.






21. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






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






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






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






25. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






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






27. The Great Fire of London.






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






29. The Russian famine of 1601






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






31. The Hudson's Bay Company is founded in Canada.






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






33. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






34. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






35. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






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






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






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






39. Mary II of England dies






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






41. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






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






43. Bethlen Gabor - Prince of Transylvania joins Protestant Rebels.






44. Mount Vesuvius erupts






45. The Treaty of Nerchinsk established a border between Russia and China.






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






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






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






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






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