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17th Century Timeline

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1. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






2. The Irish Rebellion.






3. The Russian famine of 1601






4. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






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






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






7. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






8. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






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






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






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






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






13. France takes full political and military control over its colonial possessions in New France.






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






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






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






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






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






19. The War of Devolution; France invades the Netherlands. The Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle (1668) brings this to a halt.






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






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






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






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






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






25. The Great Plague of London.






26. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






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






28. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






29. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






30. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






31. Franco-Dutch War.






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






33. 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






34. Mehmed K






35. Mount Vesuvius erupts






36. Mary II of England dies






37. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






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






39. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






40. Torture is outlawed in England.






41. Disagreements between the Farnese and Barberini Pope Urban VIII escalate into the Wars of Castro and last until 1649.






42. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






43. After his father Shah Jahan completes the Taj Mahal - his son Aurangzeb deposes him as ruler of the Mughal Empire.






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






45. The Bank of England is established.






46. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






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






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






49. The Manchus start invading China. Their conquest eventually topples the Ming Dynasty.






50. Aurochs go extinct.