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17th Century Timeline

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






2. Franco-Dutch War.






3. Torture is outlawed in England.






4. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






5. Louis XIV accepts the Spanish crown on behalf of his grandson Philip of Anjou - triggering the War of the Spanish Succession






6. English Civil War ends with the Parliamentarian victory at the Battle of Worcester.






7. Mehmed K






8. Antoni van Leeuwenhoek is the first to observe microbes with a homemade microscope - using samples he collected from his teeth scrapings - raindrops - and his own feces. He calls them 'animalcules.'






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






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






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






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






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






14. The fortresses of Veszpr






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






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






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






18. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






19. The Russian famine of 1601






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






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






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






23. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






24. The Irish Rebellion.






25. The Glorious Revolution starts with the Dutch Republic invading England - England becomes a constitutional monarchy.






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






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






28. The Deluge wars leave Polish






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






30. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






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






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






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






34. The Bohemian Revolt precipitates the Thirty Years' War which devastates Europe in the years 1618






35. Cardinal Richelieu allies with Swedish Protestant forces in the Thirty Years' War to counter Ferdinand II's expansion.






36. Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge founded.






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






38. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






39. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






40. The Treaty of Westminster ends the war between England and the Republic of the United Provinces.






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






42. 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.






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






44. Lithuanian Civil War






45. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






46. Torture is outlawed in England.






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






48. The Pueblo Revolt drives the Spanish out of New Mexico until 1692.






49. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






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