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17th Century Timeline

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1. The Great Plague of London.






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






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






4. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






5. The Great Plague of Seville.






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






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






8. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






9. Cardinal Richelieu lays siege to Protestant La Rochelle which eventually capitulates.






10. The Mughal Empire nearly bans the EastIndia Company in response to pirate Henry Every's capture of the Ganj-i-Sawai






11. The Siege of Derry.






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






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






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






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






17. Famine in France kills 2 million.






18. The Mughal Empire nearly bans the EastIndia Company in response to pirate Henry Every's capture of the Ganj-i-Sawai






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






20. The Russian famine of 1601






21. Emperor Fasilides expels the Catholic Patriarch Afonso Mendes and several Jesuit missionaries from Ethiopia.






22. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






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






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






25. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






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






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






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






29. The Peace of Westphalia ends the Thirty Years' War and the Eighty Years' War and marks the ends of Spain and the Holy Roman Empire as major European powers.






30. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






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32. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






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






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






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






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






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






39. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






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






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






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






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






44. The Bank of England is established.






45. Disagreements between the Farnese and Barberini Pope Urban VIII escalate into the Wars of Castro and last until 1649.






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






47. Mount Vesuvius erupts






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






49. Cardinal Richelieu lays siege to Protestant La Rochelle which eventually capitulates.






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