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17th Century Timeline

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






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






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






4. Battle of L






5. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






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






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






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






9. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






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






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






12. The Great Fire of London.






13. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






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






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






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






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






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






19. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






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






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






22. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






23. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






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






25. Polish-Ottoman War.






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






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






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






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






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






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






32. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






33. After modernizing his army - Abbas I expands the Persian Empire by capturing territory from the Ottomans and the Portuguese.






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






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






36. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






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






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






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






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






41. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






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






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






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






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






46. Elizabeth I of England dies and is succeeded by her cousin King James VI of Scotland - uniting the crowns of Scotland and England.






47. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






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






49. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






50. Fronde civil war in France.







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