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17th Century Timeline

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1. The Bank of England is established.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






11. The Karposh rebellion is crushed in present-day Republic of Macedonia - Skopje is retaken by the Ottoman Turks. Karposh is killed - and the rebels are defeated. Giles Cory was pressed to death during the Salem witch trials in the 1690s






12. Franco-Dutch War.






13. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






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






15. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






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






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






18. Jacques Aymar-Vernay - who later reintroduced Dowsing into popular use in Europe - is born.






19. Aurochs go extinct.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






27. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






28. The Great Plague of Seville.






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






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






31. The fortresses of Veszpr






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33. The Ottomans capture Crete.






34. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






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






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






37. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






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






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






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






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






43. The Battle of Chocim - Poles and Cossacks under Jan Karol Chodkiewicz defeat the Ottomans.






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






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






46. Elizabeth I of England dies and is succeeded by her cousin King James VI of Scotland - uniting the crowns of Scotland and England.






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






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






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






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