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17th Century Timeline

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






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






3. Bethlen Gabor - Prince of Transylvania joins Protestant Rebels.






4. Mount Vesuvius erupts






5. William ascends to the throne over England - Scotland - and Ireland.






6. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






7. Jacques Aymar-Vernay - who later reintroduced Dowsing into popular use in Europe - is born.






8. Naval Battle of the Downs






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






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






12. The Brownist Pilgrims arrive in the Mayflower at Cape Cod






13. As chief minister - Cardinal Richelieu centralises power in France.






14. The Defenestration of Prague






15. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






16. 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.'






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






18. Mary II of England dies






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






20. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






26. Mary II of England dies






27. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






28. The Ottomans capture Crete.






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






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






31. The Russian famine of 1601






32. Torture is outlawed in England.






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34. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






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






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






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






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






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






40. Emperor Fasilides founds the city of Gondar - which becomes the capital of Ethiopia for the next two centuries.






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






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






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






44. The Commonwealth of England ends and the monarchy is brought back during the English Restoration.






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






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






47. Torture is outlawed in England.






48. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






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






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