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17th Century Timeline

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






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






3. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






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






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






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






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






8. 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.'






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






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






11. St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican completed.






12. Lithuanian Civil War






13. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






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






15. The Russian famine of 1601






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






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






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






19. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






20. Mary II of England dies






21. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






22. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Bahia in Brazil.






23. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






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






25. Aurochs go extinct.






26. Ren






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






28. Polish-Ottoman War.






29. Flight of the Earls (the fleeing of most of the native Gaelic aristocracy) occurs from County Donegal in the west of Ulster in Ireland.






30. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






31. 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






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






33. Seven-year-old Mehmed IV becomes sultan.






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






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






36. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






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






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






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






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






41. The Bank of England is established.






42. Koxinga captures Taiwan from the Dutch and founds the Kingdom of Tungning which rules until 1683.






43. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






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






45. Battle of L






46. The Great Fire of London.






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






48. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






49. The Deluge wars leave Polish






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