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17th Century Timeline

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1. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






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






3. Franco-Dutch War.






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






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






6. The Mughal Empire nearly bans the EastIndia Company in response to pirate Henry Every's capture of the Ganj-i-Sawai






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






8. The Long War between the Ottoman Empire and Austria is ended with the Peace of Zsitvatorok - Austria abandons Transylvania.






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






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






11. Shimabara Rebellion of Japanese Christians - ronin and peasants against Edo.






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






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






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






16. Fronde civil war in France.






17. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






18. 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.'






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






21. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






27. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






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






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






30. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






31. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






32. The Northern Wars cement Sweden's rise as a Great Power.






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






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






35. The Manchu conquer China ending the Ming Dynasty. The subsequent Qing Dynasty rules until 1912.






36. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






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






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39. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






40. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






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






42. Fronde civil war in France.






43. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






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






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






46. The Northern Wars cement Sweden's rise as a Great Power.






47. 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.'






48. Torture is outlawed in England.






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






50. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.