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17th Century Timeline

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






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






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






4. Famine in France kills 2 million.






5. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






6. King Charles was compelled to summon Parliament due to the revolt of the Scots.






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






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






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






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






11. Lithuanian Civil War






12. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






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






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






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






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






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






18. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






19. Fronde civil war in France.






20. British troops capture New Amsterdam and rename it New York.






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22. Cape Town founded by the Dutch EastIndia Company in South Africa.






23. Russia and the Ottoman Empire commence the Russo-Turkish Wars.






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






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






26. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






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






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






29. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






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






31. After modernizing his army - Abbas I expands the Persian Empire by capturing territory from the Ottomans and the Portuguese.






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






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






34. Pedro de Peralta - governor of New Mexico - establishes the settlement of Santa Fe.






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






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






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






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39. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






40. The reign of the Kangxi Emperor of China begins.






41. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






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






43. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






44. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






45. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






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






47. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






48. The Great Fire of London.






49. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






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