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17th Century Timeline

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






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






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






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






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






6. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






7. Battle of L






8. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Bahia in Brazil.






9. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






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






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






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






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






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






15. Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman achieves the first recorded European sighting of New Zealand.






16. The Defenestration of Prague






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






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






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






20. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






31. The Irish Rebellion.






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






33. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






34. 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.






35. The fortresses of Veszpr






36. 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






37. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






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






39. Aurochs go extinct.






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






41. Time of Troubles - Vasili IV becomes Tzar of Russia.






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






43. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






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






45. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






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






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






48. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Bahia in Brazil.






49. Mount Vesuvius erupts






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