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17th Century Timeline

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2. 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.'






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






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






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






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






7. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






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






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






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






11. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






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






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






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






15. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






16. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






17. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






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






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






20. Naval Battle of the Downs






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






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






24. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






25. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






26. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






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






28. 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






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






30. The death of Miyamoto Musashi - legendary Japanese Samurai warrior - of natural causes.






31. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






32. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






33. The Great Plague of London.






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






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36. The fortresses of Veszpr






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






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






40. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






41. The Battle of St. Gotthard - Count Raimondo Montecuccoli defeats the Ottomans. The Peace of Vasvar






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






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






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






45. The Defenestration of Prague






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






47. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






48. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






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






50. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.