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17th Century Timeline

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1. 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






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






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






4. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






5. Tokugawa Ieyasu seizes control of Japan and establishes the Tokugawa Shogunate - beginning the Edo period that lasts until 1869.






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






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






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






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






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






11. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






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13. The Great Fire of London.






14. The Irish Rebellion.






15. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






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. Mount Vesuvius erupts






18. Famine in France kills 2 million.






19. Shimabara Rebellion of Japanese Christians - ronin and peasants against Edo.






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






21. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






22. Dutch EastIndia Company founded. Its success contributes to the Dutch Golden Age.






23. Fronde civil war in France.






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25. As chief minister - Cardinal Richelieu centralises power in France.






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






27. Capture of Ormuz; The island of Hormuz was captured by an Anglo-Persian force from Portuguese.






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






29. The Ottomans capture Crete from the Venetians after the Siege of Candia.






30. Pedro de Peralta - governor of New Mexico - establishes the settlement of Santa Fe.






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






32. The Bank of England is established.






33. Thomas Savery demonstrates his first steam engine to the Royal Society.






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






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






36. The Karposh rebellion is crushed in present-day Republic of Macedonia - Skopje is retaken by the Ottoman Turks. Karposh is killed - and the rebels are defeated. Giles Cory was pressed to death during the Salem witch trials in the 1690s






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






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






39. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






40. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






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






42. 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.'






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44. The Great Fire of London.






45. The Defenestration of Prague






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






47. Franco-Dutch War.






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






49. The Siege of Derry.






50. The Raid on the Medway during the Second Anglo-Dutch War.