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17th Century Timeline

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






2. The Deluge wars leave Polish






3. 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.






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






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






6. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






7. Jamestown - Virginia - is settled as what would become the first permanent English colony in North America.






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






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






11. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






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






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






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






15. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






16. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






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






18. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






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






20. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






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






22. The Great Plague of Seville.






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






24. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






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






26. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






27. 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.'






28. Edict of Fontainebleau outlaws Protestantism in France. King Charles II dies






29. La Salle explores the length of the Mississippi River and claims Louisiana for France.






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






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






32. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






33. The Bank of England is established.






34. Battle of N






35. Disagreements between the Farnese and Barberini Pope Urban VIII escalate into the Wars of Castro and last until 1649.






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






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






38. Jamestown massacre - Algonquian natives kill 347 English settlers outside Jamestown - Virginia (1/3 of the colony's population) and burn the Henricus settlement.






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






40. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






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






42. France takes full political and military control over its colonial possessions in New France.






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






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






45. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






46. 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.






47. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






48. Ren






49. France takes full political and military control over its colonial possessions in New France.






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