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17th Century Timeline

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1. Lithuanian Civil War






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






3. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






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






5. The fortresses of Veszpr






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






7. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






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






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






10. Mehmed K






11. Peace Treaty of Lisbon between Spain and Portugal recognizes Portugal as independent country.






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






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






14. Siamese revolution of 1688 ousted French influence and virtually severed all ties with the West until the 19th century.






15. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






16. Polish






17. 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.






18. The Time of Troubles in Russia ends with the establishment of the House of Romanov which rules until 1917.






19. Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before theInquisition.






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






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






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






23. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Bahia in Brazil.






24. Naval Battle of the Downs






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






26. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






27. Fronde civil war in France.






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






29. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






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






31. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






32. The Great Fire of London.






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






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






35. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






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






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






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






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






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






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






42. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






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






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






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






46. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Bahia in Brazil.






47. Beginning of English Civil War - conflict will end in 1651 with the execution of King Charles I - abolishment of the monarchy and the establishment of the supremacy of Parliament over the king.






48. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






49. Battle of N






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