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17th Century Timeline

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1. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






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






3. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






4. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






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






6. St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican completed.






7. Famine in France kills 2 million.






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






9. Mount Vesuvius erupts






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






11. The Russian famine of 1601






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






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






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






15. After modernizing his army - Abbas I expands the Persian Empire by capturing territory from the Ottomans and the Portuguese.






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






17. Lynching of Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis de Witt in the Hague






18. Russia supplants Sweden as the dominant Baltic power after the Great Northern War.






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






20. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






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






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






23. Naval Battle of the Downs






24. Aurochs go extinct.






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






26. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






27. Russia and the Ottoman Empire commence the Russo-Turkish Wars.






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






29. The Ottomans capture Crete.






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






31. Battle of Kinsale - one of the most important battles in Irish history - fought.






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






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






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






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






36. Mount Vesuvius erupts






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






38. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






39. Bethlen Gabor allies with the Ottomans and an invasion of Moldavia takes place. The Polish suffer a disaster at Cecora on the River Prut.






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






41. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






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






43. The Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas - the oldest existing university in Asia - established by the Dominican Order in Manila






44. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






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






46. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






47. 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.'






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






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






50. The Battle of Killiecrankie is fought between Jacobite and Williamite forces in Highland Perthshire