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17th Century Timeline

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






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






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






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






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






6. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






7. Flight of the Earls (the fleeing of most of the native Gaelic aristocracy) occurs from County Donegal in the west of Ulster in Ireland.






8. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






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






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






11. Mehmed K






12. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






13. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






21. A Habsburg council of war is held in Vienna.






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






23. British troops capture New Amsterdam and rename it New York.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






31. 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






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






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






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






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






36. The Russian famine of 1601






37. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






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






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






40. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






41. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






42. La Salle explores the length of the Mississippi River and claims Louisiana for France.






43. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






44. Battle of N






45. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






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






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






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






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






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







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