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17th Century Timeline

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






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






3. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






4. Mehmed K






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






6. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






7. The Battle of Chocim - Poles and Cossacks under Jan Karol Chodkiewicz defeat the Ottomans.






8. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






9. The Defenestration of Prague






10. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






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






12. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






13. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






14. The Battle of Vienna finishes the Ottoman Empire's hegemony in south-eastern Europe.






15. 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.'






16. The College of William and Mary is founded in Williamsburg - Virginia by a royal charter.






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






18. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






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






20. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






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






22. Portugal defeats the Kongo Empire at the Battle of Mbwila.






23. The Great Fire of London.






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






25. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






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






27. The Battle of Chocim - Poles and Cossacks under Jan Karol Chodkiewicz defeat the Ottomans.






28. Polish






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






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






31. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






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






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






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






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






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






37. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






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






39. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






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






41. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






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






43. Maffeo Barberini is elected Pope Urban VIII at the Papal conclave of 1623.






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






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






46. Wars of the Three Kingdoms - civil wars throughout Scotland - Ireland - and England.






47. Aurochs go extinct.






48. The Treaty of Nerchinsk established a border between Russia and China.






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






50. Battle of N






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