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17th Century Timeline

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1. The Irish Rebellion.






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






3. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






4. The last remaining Moriscos (Moors who had nominally converted to Christianity) in Spain are expelled.






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






6. Mehmed K






7. Ren






8. The Treaty of Karlowitz ends the Great Turkish War.






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






10. Bethlen Gabor allies with the Ottomans and an invasion of Moldavia takes place. The Polish suffer a disaster at Cecora on the River Prut.






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






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






13. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






14. Polish






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






22. Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before theInquisition.






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






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






25. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






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






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






28. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






29. The War of Devolution; France invades the Netherlands. The Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle (1668) brings this to a halt.






30. Bethlen Gabor allies with the Ottomans and an invasion of Moldavia takes place. The Polish suffer a disaster at Cecora on the River Prut.






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






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






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






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






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






36. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






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






38. Famine in France kills 2 million.






39. Siamese revolution of 1688 ousted French influence and virtually severed all ties with the West until the 19th century.






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






41. Mount Vesuvius erupts






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






43. Mehmed K






44. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






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






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






47. The Ottomans capture Crete.






48. The Great Plague of London.






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






50. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.