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17th Century Timeline

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






2. 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






3. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






4. The death of Miyamoto Musashi - legendary Japanese Samurai warrior - of natural causes.






5. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






6. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






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






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






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






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






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






12. The Karposh rebellion is crushed in present-day Republic of Macedonia - Skopje is retaken by the Ottoman Turks. Karposh is killed - and the rebels are defeated. Giles Cory was pressed to death during the Salem witch trials in the 1690s






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






20. Aurochs go extinct.






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






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






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






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






25. Lithuanian Civil War






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






27. Aurochs go extinct.






28. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






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






30. The Mughal Empire nearly bans the EastIndia Company in response to pirate Henry Every's capture of the Ganj-i-Sawai






31. Franco-Dutch War.






32. Battle of N






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






34. The Defenestration of Prague






35. The Portuguese Restoration War led to the end of the Iberian Union.






36. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






37. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






38. The last remaining Moriscos (Moors who had nominally converted to Christianity) in Spain are expelled.






39. Torture is outlawed in England.






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






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






42. 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.






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






44. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






45. The last remaining Moriscos (Moors who had nominally converted to Christianity) in Spain are expelled.






46. The Portuguese Restoration War led to the end of the Iberian Union.






47. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






48. Naval Battle of the Downs






49. Polish-Ottoman War.






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