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17th Century Timeline

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1. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






2. The Ottomans capture Crete.






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






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






5. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






6. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






7. Lithuanian Civil War






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






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






10. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






11. 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






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






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






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






15. The Raid on the Medway during the Second Anglo-Dutch War.






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






17. Cardinal Richelieu lays siege to Protestant La Rochelle which eventually capitulates.






18. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






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






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






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






22. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






30. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






31. Seven-year-old Mehmed IV becomes sultan.






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






33. 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.






34. A Habsburg council of war is held in Vienna.






35. 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.






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






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






38. Famine in France kills 2 million.






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






40. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






41. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






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






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






44. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






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






46. Mary II of England dies






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






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






49. Dutch EastIndia Company founded. Its success contributes to the Dutch Golden Age.






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