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17th Century Timeline

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






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






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






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






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6. Time of Troubles - Vasili IV becomes Tzar of Russia.






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8. 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.






9. Ottoman war with Venice. The Ottomans invade Crete and capture Canea.






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






11. Franco-Dutch War.






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






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






14. Flight of the Earls (the fleeing of most of the native Gaelic aristocracy) occurs from County Donegal in the west of Ulster in Ireland.






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






16. The Battle of St. Gotthard - Count Raimondo Montecuccoli defeats the Ottomans. The Peace of Vasvar






17. Naval Battle of the Downs






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






19. Mary II of England dies






20. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






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






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






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






24. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






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






26. Mary II of England dies






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






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






29. The College of William and Mary is founded in Williamsburg - Virginia by a royal charter.






30. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






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






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






33. The Ottomans capture Crete.






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






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






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






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






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






39. The Great Fire of London.






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






41. 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.'






42. Quebec City founded by Samuel de Champlain in New France (present-day Canada).






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






44. The Great Fire of London.






45. The Ottomans capture Crete from the Venetians after the Siege of Candia.






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






47. The Ottomans capture Crete.






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






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






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