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17th Century Timeline

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






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






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






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






5. The Bank of England is established.






6. Capture of Ormuz; The island of Hormuz was captured by an Anglo-Persian force from Portuguese.






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






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






9. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






10. Mehmed K






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






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






13. Torture is outlawed in England.






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






15. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






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






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






18. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






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






20. Aurochs go extinct.






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






22. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






23. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






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






25. Franco-Dutch War.






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






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






28. The Irish Rebellion.






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






30. The Great Turkish War halts the Ottoman Empire's expansion into Europe.






31. The fortresses of Veszpr






32. 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.'






33. Polish-Ottoman War.






34. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






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






36. Seven-year-old Mehmed IV becomes sultan.






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






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






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






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






41. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






42. Naval Battle of the Downs






43. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






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






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






46. 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.






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






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






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






50. Aurochs go extinct.