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17th Century Timeline

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1. The Grand Alliance sought to stop French expansion during the Nine Years War.






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






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






4. Pedro de Peralta - governor of New Mexico - establishes the settlement of Santa Fe.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






12. 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






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






14. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






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






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






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






18. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






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






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






22. Fronde civil war in France.






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






24. Captain Willem Janszoon and his crew aboard the Dutch EastIndia Company ship Duyfken becomes the first recorded Europeans to sight and make landfall in Australia.






25. Torture is outlawed in England.






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






27. Maffeo Barberini is elected Pope Urban VIII at the Papal conclave of 1623.






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






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






30. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






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






32. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






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






34. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






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






36. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






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






38. Ottoman campaign to help the Ukrainian Cossacks. John Sobieski defeats the Ottomans at the second battle of Khotyn (1673).






39. Portugal defeats the Kongo Empire at the Battle of Mbwila.






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






41. The Second Anglo-Dutch War fought between England and the United Provinces.






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






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






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






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






47. The Russian famine of 1601






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






49. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






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