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17th Century Timeline

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






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






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






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






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






6. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






7. The Portuguese Restoration War led to the end of the Iberian Union.






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






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






10. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






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






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






13. The Glorious Revolution starts with the Dutch Republic invading England - England becomes a constitutional monarchy.






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






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






16. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






17. Fronde civil war in France.






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






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






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






21. The fortresses of Veszpr






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






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






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






25. The Great Plague of London.






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






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






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






29. The Great Plague of Seville.






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






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






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






33. Maffeo Barberini is elected Pope Urban VIII at the Papal conclave of 1623.






34. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






35. The Siege of Derry.






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






37. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






38. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






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






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






41. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






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






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






44. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






45. Aurochs go extinct.






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






47. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






48. The Defenestration of Prague






49. The Brownist Pilgrims arrive in the Mayflower at Cape Cod






50. The Ottomans capture Crete.







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