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17th Century Timeline

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






2. Polish-Ottoman War.






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






4. The War of Devolution; France invades the Netherlands. The Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle (1668) brings this to a halt.






5. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






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






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






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. Beginning of English Civil War - conflict will end in 1651 with the execution of King Charles I - abolishment of the monarchy and the establishment of the supremacy of Parliament over the king.






10. The Deluge wars leave Polish






11. Lynching of Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis de Witt in the Hague






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






13. The Great Fire of London.






14. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






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






16. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






17. Jamestown - Virginia - is settled as what would become the first permanent English colony in North America.






18. The fortresses of Veszpr






19. St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican completed.






20. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






21. Fronde civil war in France.






22. Mehmed K






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






24. Emperor Fasilides founds the city of Gondar - which becomes the capital of Ethiopia for the next two centuries.






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






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






27. 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.






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






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






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






31. The Defenestration of Prague






32. Lithuanian Civil War






33. The Portuguese Restoration War led to the end of the Iberian Union.






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






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






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






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






38. The Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth army defeats combined Russian- Swedish forces at the Battle of Klushino and conquers Moscow.






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






40. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






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






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






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






44. The Great Plague of London.






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






46. Emperor Fasilides founds the city of Gondar - which becomes the capital of Ethiopia for the next two centuries.






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






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






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






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