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17th Century Timeline

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1. The Great Plague of London.






2. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






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






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






5. Polish






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






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






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






9. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






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






11. St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican completed.






12. 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.






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






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






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






16. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






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






18. The Great Fire of London.






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






20. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






21. Mount Vesuvius erupts






22. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






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






24. The last remaining Moriscos (Moors who had nominally converted to Christianity) in Spain are expelled.






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






26. The Ottomans capture Crete.






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






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






29. The Siege of Derry.






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






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






32. 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.






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






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






35. Mehmed K






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






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






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






39. The Irish Rebellion.






40. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






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






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






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






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






45. Naval Battle of the Downs






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






47. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






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






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






50. Torture is outlawed in England.