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17th Century Timeline

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






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






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






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






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6. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






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






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






9. Russia supplants Sweden as the dominant Baltic power after the Great Northern War.






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






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






12. 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






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






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






15. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






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






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






18. Battle of N






19. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






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






21. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






22. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






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






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






25. Wars of the Three Kingdoms - civil wars throughout Scotland - Ireland - and England.






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






27. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






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






29. The Great Plague of Seville.






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






32. Lithuanian Civil War






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






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






35. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






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






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






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






39. Shimabara Rebellion of Japanese Christians - ronin and peasants against Edo.






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






41. Famine in France kills 2 million.






42. The Ottomans capture Crete.






43. Russia supplants Sweden as the dominant Baltic power after the Great Northern War.






44. The Glorious Revolution starts with the Dutch Republic invading England - England becomes a constitutional monarchy.






45. Aurochs go extinct.






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






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






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






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






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