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17th Century Timeline

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






2. Famine in France kills 2 million.






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






4. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






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






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






7. The Great Fire of London.






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






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






10. Polish






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






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






13. The Netherlands and Spain agree to a Twelve Years' Truce in the Eighty Years' War.






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






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






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






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






18. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






19. Treaty of Vienna ends anti-Habsburg uprising in Royal Hungary.






20. The Defenestration of Prague






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






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






23. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






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






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






26. The Russian famine of 1601






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






28. The Great Plague of Seville.






29. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






30. Michael the Brave (first unificator of Romania) - voivode of Wallachia - Moldavia and Transylvania - is assassinated by the order of the Habsburg general Giorgio Basta at C






31. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






32. The fortresses of Veszpr






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






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






35. The Treaty of Nerchinsk established a border between Russia and China.






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






37. King Charles was compelled to summon Parliament due to the revolt of the Scots.






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






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






40. Emperor Fasilides expels the Catholic Patriarch Afonso Mendes and several Jesuit missionaries from Ethiopia.






41. Dutch EastIndia Company founded. Its success contributes to the Dutch Golden Age.






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






43. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Pernambuco and founds Dutch Brazil.






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






45. Naval Battle of the Downs






46. New Amsterdam founded by the Dutch WestIndia Company in North America.






47. Polish-Ottoman War.






48. 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.






49. Battle of N






50. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.