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17th Century Timeline

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






2. The fortresses of Veszpr






3. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






4. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






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






6. Aurochs go extinct.






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






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






9. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






10. Treaty of Vienna ends anti-Habsburg uprising in Royal Hungary.






11. Fronde civil war in France.






12. Franco-Dutch War.






13. Siamese revolution of 1688 ousted French influence and virtually severed all ties with the West until the 19th century.






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






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






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






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






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






19. Naval Battle of the Downs






20. The Russian famine of 1601






21. The Irish Rebellion.






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






23. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






24. 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.






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






26. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






27. The Bank of England is established.






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






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






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






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






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






33. The Deluge wars leave Polish






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






35. 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.






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






37. Mary II of England dies






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






39. British troops capture New Amsterdam and rename it New York.






40. Fronde civil war in France.






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






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






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






44. The Defenestration of Prague






45. The Second Anglo-Dutch War fought between England and the United Provinces.






46. Aurochs go extinct.






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






48. 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.'






49. The Great Fire of London.






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