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17th Century Timeline

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






2. Torture is outlawed in England.






3. Aurochs go extinct.






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






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






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






7. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






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






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






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






11. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






12. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






13. The Bank of England is established.






14. Famine in Finland wipes out almost a third of the population.






15. Torture is outlawed in England.






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






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






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






19. The Defenestration of Prague






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






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






22. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






23. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






24. The Tokugawa Shogunate institutes Sakoku- foreigners are expelled and no one is allowed to enter or leave Japan.






25. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






26. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






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






28. 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.






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






30. Franco-Dutch War.






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






32. The Northern Wars cement Sweden's rise as a Great Power.






33. Mount Vesuvius erupts






34. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






35. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






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






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






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






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






40. The Manchu conquer China ending the Ming Dynasty. The subsequent Qing Dynasty rules until 1912.






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






42. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






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






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






45. The Siege of Derry.






46. The 1700 Cascadia earthquake (magnitude 9) occurs off the coast of the Pacific Northwest; Japan is struck by a tsunami.






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






48. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






49. William ascends to the throne over England - Scotland - and Ireland.






50. The Deluge wars leave Polish