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17th Century Timeline

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






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






3. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






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






5. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






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






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






8. Mount Vesuvius erupts






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






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






11. The Battle of Vienna finishes the Ottoman Empire's hegemony in south-eastern Europe.






12. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






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






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






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






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






17. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






26. Polish-Ottoman War.






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






28. Battle of L






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






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






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






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






33. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






34. Famine in France kills 2 million.






35. Battle of N






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






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






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






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






40. The Battle of Vienna finishes the Ottoman Empire's hegemony in south-eastern Europe.






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






42. Ren






43. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






44. The last remaining Moriscos (Moors who had nominally converted to Christianity) in Spain are expelled.






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






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






47. The Battle of Killiecrankie is fought between Jacobite and Williamite forces in Highland Perthshire






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






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






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