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17th Century Timeline

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1. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






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






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






4. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






5. Jamestown massacre - Algonquian natives kill 347 English settlers outside Jamestown - Virginia (1/3 of the colony's population) and burn the Henricus settlement.






6. The Long War between the Ottoman Empire and Austria is ended with the Peace of Zsitvatorok - Austria abandons Transylvania.






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






8. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






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






10. 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.'






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






12. Beginning of English Civil War - conflict will end in 1651 with the execution of King Charles I - abolishment of the monarchy and the establishment of the supremacy of Parliament over the king.






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






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






15. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






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






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






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






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






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






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






22. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






23. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






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






25. The Russian famine of 1601






26. Fronde civil war in France.






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






28. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






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






30. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






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






32. Beginning of English Civil War - conflict will end in 1651 with the execution of King Charles I - abolishment of the monarchy and the establishment of the supremacy of Parliament over the king.






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






34. Torture is outlawed in England.






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






36. Jamestown massacre - Algonquian natives kill 347 English settlers outside Jamestown - Virginia (1/3 of the colony's population) and burn the Henricus settlement.






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






38. The Great Plague of London.






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






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






41. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






42. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






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






44. Famine in France kills 2 million.






45. Naval Battle of the Downs






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






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






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






49. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






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