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17th Century Timeline

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1. Sultan Mehmed IV - advised by Kara Mustafa - decides to disregard the existing peace treaty with Leopold I - due to expire in 1684.






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






3. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






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






5. The Bank of England is established.






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






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






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






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






10. Polish-Ottoman War.






11. Famine in France kills 2 million.






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






13. The Great Plague of London.






14. The Great Plague of Seville.






15. 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.'






16. The Treaty of Karlowitz ends the Great Turkish War.






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






18. The Irish Rebellion.






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






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






21. The Tokugawa Shogunate institutes Sakoku- foreigners are expelled and no one is allowed to enter or leave Japan.






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






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






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






25. Torture is outlawed in England.






26. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






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






28. Mount Vesuvius erupts






29. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






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






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






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






33. Lithuanian Civil War






34. Mehmed K






35. The Bank of England is established.






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






37. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






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






39. The Time of Troubles in Russia ends with the establishment of the House of Romanov which rules until 1917.






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






41. Mount Vesuvius erupts






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






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






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






45. Flight of the Earls (the fleeing of most of the native Gaelic aristocracy) occurs from County Donegal in the west of Ulster in Ireland.






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






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






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






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






50. Battle of L