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17th Century Timeline

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1. The Northern Wars cement Sweden's rise as a Great Power.






2. Polish






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






4. Captain Willem Janszoon and his crew aboard the Dutch EastIndia Company ship Duyfken becomes the first recorded Europeans to sight and make landfall in Australia.






5. Naval Battle of the Downs






6. Louis XIV accepts the Spanish crown on behalf of his grandson Philip of Anjou - triggering the War of the Spanish Succession






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






8. The Great Plague of London.






9. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






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






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






12. The Deluge wars leave Polish






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






14. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






15. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






16. The Russian famine of 1601






17. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






18. Torture is outlawed in England.






19. The Bank of England is established.






20. Famine in Finland wipes out almost a third of the population.






21. Famine in France kills 2 million.






22. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






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






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






25. The Second Anglo-Dutch War fought between England and the United Provinces.






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






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






28. Famine in France kills 2 million.






29. Sultan Mehmed IV - advised by Kara Mustafa - decides to disregard the existing peace treaty with Leopold I - due to expire in 1684.






30. Aurochs go extinct.






31. Battle of N






32. The Irish Rebellion.






33. The Peace of Westphalia ends the Thirty Years' War and the Eighty Years' War and marks the ends of Spain and the Holy Roman Empire as major European powers.






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






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






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






37. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






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






39. Fronde civil war in France.






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






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






42. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






43. Ottoman war with Venice. The Ottomans invade Crete and capture Canea.






44. The Pueblo Revolt drives the Spanish out of New Mexico until 1692.






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






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






47. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






48. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






49. Tokugawa Ieyasu seizes control of Japan and establishes the Tokugawa Shogunate - beginning the Edo period that lasts until 1869.






50. 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.'