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17th Century Timeline

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






2. Torture is outlawed in England.






3. As chief minister - Cardinal Richelieu centralises power in France.






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






5. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






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7. Ren






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






9. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






10. The Deluge wars leave Polish






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






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






13. Beginning of English Civil War - conflict will end in 1651 with the execution of King Charles I - abolishment of the monarchy and the establishment of the supremacy of Parliament over the king.






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






15. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






16. Famine in France kills 2 million.






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






18. The Netherlands and Spain agree to a Twelve Years' Truce in the Eighty Years' War.






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






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






21. Famine in France kills 2 million.






22. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






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






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






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






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






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






28. Mount Vesuvius erupts






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






30. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






31. John Evelyn's forestry book - Sylva - is published in England.






32. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






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






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






35. The Defenestration of Prague






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






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






38. Disagreements between the Farnese and Barberini Pope Urban VIII escalate into the Wars of Castro and last until 1649.






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






40. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






41. 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.






42. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






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






44. The Irish Rebellion.






45. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






46. The Great Plague of London.






47. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






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






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






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