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17th Century Timeline

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1. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






2. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






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






4. Torture is outlawed in England.






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






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






7. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






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






9. The Hudson's Bay Company is founded in Canada.






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






11. 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.'






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






13. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






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






15. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






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






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






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






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






20. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






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






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






23. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






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






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






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






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






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






29. Battle of L






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






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






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






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






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






35. Mary II of England dies






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






37. William ascends to the throne over England - Scotland - and Ireland.






38. Ren






39. Aurochs go extinct.






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






41. The Manchu conquer China ending the Ming Dynasty. The subsequent Qing Dynasty rules until 1912.






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






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






44. The Raid on the Medway during the Second Anglo-Dutch War.






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






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






47. The Great Fire of London.






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






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






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







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