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17th Century Timeline

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1. Battle of L






2. Mount Vesuvius erupts






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






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






5. Polish-Ottoman War.






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






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






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






9. Aurochs go extinct.






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






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






12. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






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






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






15. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






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






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






18. The Battle of Killiecrankie is fought between Jacobite and Williamite forces in Highland Perthshire






19. Mehmed K






20. Naval Battle of the Downs






21. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






22. The Portuguese Restoration War led to the end of the Iberian Union.






23. Jamestown - Virginia - is settled as what would become the first permanent English colony in North America.






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






25. The Battle of Chocim - Poles and Cossacks under Jan Karol Chodkiewicz defeat the Ottomans.






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






27. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






28. Aurochs go extinct.






29. Mary II of England dies






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






31. Franco-Dutch War.






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






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






35. The Irish Rebellion.






36. France takes full political and military control over its colonial possessions in New France.






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






38. Michael the Brave (first unificator of Romania) - voivode of Wallachia - Moldavia and Transylvania - is assassinated by the order of the Habsburg general Giorgio Basta at C






39. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






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






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






42. The fortresses of Veszpr






43. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






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






45. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






46. Fronde civil war in France.






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






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






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






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