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17th Century Timeline

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1. Lithuanian Civil War






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






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






4. Aurochs go extinct.






5. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






6. The earliest known first-class cricket match took place in Sussex.






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






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






9. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






10. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






11. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






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






13. The Pueblo Revolt drives the Spanish out of New Mexico until 1692.






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






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






16. Mary II of England dies






17. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






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






19. The Defenestration of Prague






20. The Great Fire of London.






21. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






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






23. 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






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






25. Giovanni Battista Pamphili is elected PopeInnocent X at the Papal conclave of 1644.






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






27. The Ottomans capture Crete.






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






29. Fronde civil war in France.






30. After his father Shah Jahan completes the Taj Mahal - his son Aurangzeb deposes him as ruler of the Mughal Empire.






31. Wars of the Three Kingdoms - civil wars throughout Scotland - Ireland - and England.






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






33. The Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas - the oldest existing university in Asia - established by the Dominican Order in Manila






34. 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.'






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






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






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






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






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






40. Battle of N






41. Polish-Ottoman War.






42. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






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






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






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






46. The Deluge wars leave Polish






47. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






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






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






50. Rampjaar in the Netherlands