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17th Century Timeline

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1. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






12. The Great Plague of London.






13. Battle of Kinsale - one of the most important battles in Irish history - fought.






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






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






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






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






19. Koxinga captures Taiwan from the Dutch and founds the Kingdom of Tungning which rules until 1683.






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






21. The Bank of England is established.






22. The Russian famine of 1601






23. The fortresses of Veszpr






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






32. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






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






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






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






36. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






37. 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.






38. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






39. The Siege of Derry.






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






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






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






43. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






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






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46. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






47. The Battle of Killiecrankie is fought between Jacobite and Williamite forces in Highland Perthshire






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






49. The Irish Rebellion.






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