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17th Century Timeline

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






2. Giovanni Battista Pamphili is elected PopeInnocent X at the Papal conclave of 1644.






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






4. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






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






6. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






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






8. 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






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






10. The Treaty of Karlowitz ends the Great Turkish War.






11. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






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






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






14. John Locke publishes his first 'Letter Concerning Toleration'.






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






16. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






17. Naval Battle of the Downs






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






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






20. The Treaty of Karlowitz ends the Great Turkish War.






21. Mount Vesuvius erupts






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






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






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






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






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






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






28. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






29. The Glorious Revolution starts with the Dutch Republic invading England - England becomes a constitutional monarchy.






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






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






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






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






34. The Bank of England is established.






35. The 1700 Cascadia earthquake (magnitude 9) occurs off the coast of the Pacific Northwest; Japan is struck by a tsunami.






36. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






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






38. The Great Fire of London.






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






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






41. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






42. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






43. 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






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






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






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






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






48. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






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






50. Lithuanian Civil War