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17th Century Timeline

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






2. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






3. Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge founded.






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






5. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






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






7. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






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






9. Franco-Dutch War.






10. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






11. 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






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






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






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






15. Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge founded.






16. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






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






18. Battle of N






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






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






21. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






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






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






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






25. Treaty of Vienna ends anti-Habsburg uprising in Royal Hungary.






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






27. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






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






29. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






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






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






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






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






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






35. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






36. Peace Treaty of Lisbon between Spain and Portugal recognizes Portugal as independent country.






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






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






39. Battle of L






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






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






42. Torture is outlawed in England.






43. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






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






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






46. Lithuanian Civil War






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






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






49. Polish






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







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