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17th Century Timeline

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1. 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.'






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






3. Franco-Dutch War.






4. Famine in France kills 2 million.






5. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






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






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






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10. The Karposh rebellion is crushed in present-day Republic of Macedonia - Skopje is retaken by the Ottoman Turks. Karposh is killed - and the rebels are defeated. Giles Cory was pressed to death during the Salem witch trials in the 1690s






11. Captain Willem Janszoon and his crew aboard the Dutch EastIndia Company ship Duyfken becomes the first recorded Europeans to sight and make landfall in Australia.






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






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






14. Mount Vesuvius erupts






15. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






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






17. The Battle of Vienna finishes the Ottoman Empire's hegemony in south-eastern Europe.






18. The Commonwealth of England ends and the monarchy is brought back during the English Restoration.






19. Shimabara Rebellion of Japanese Christians - ronin and peasants against Edo.






20. Mount Vesuvius erupts






21. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






22. Fronde civil war in France.






23. The Defenestration of Prague






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






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






26. Famine in France kills 2 million.






27. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






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






29. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






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






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






32. Battle of Kinsale - one of the most important battles in Irish history - fought.






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






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






35. Lithuanian Civil War






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






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






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40. Tokugawa Ieyasu seizes control of Japan and establishes the Tokugawa Shogunate - beginning the Edo period that lasts until 1869.






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






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






43. Dutch EastIndia Company founded. Its success contributes to the Dutch Golden Age.






44. The Karposh rebellion is crushed in present-day Republic of Macedonia - Skopje is retaken by the Ottoman Turks. Karposh is killed - and the rebels are defeated. Giles Cory was pressed to death during the Salem witch trials in the 1690s






45. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






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






47. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






48. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






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






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