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17th Century Timeline

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






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






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






4. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






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






6. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






7. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






8. The Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas - the oldest existing university in Asia - established by the Dominican Order in Manila






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






17. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






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






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






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






21. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






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






23. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






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






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






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






27. 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.'






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






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






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






31. The Great Fire of London.






32. The Deluge wars leave Polish






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






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






35. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






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






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






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






39. The Great Plague of Seville.






40. The Ottomans capture Crete.






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






42. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






43. The Ottomans capture Crete.






44. Fronde civil war in France.






45. Mount Vesuvius erupts






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






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






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






49. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






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