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17th Century Timeline

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






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






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






4. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






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






6. The Great Fire of London.






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






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






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






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






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






12. The fortresses of Veszpr






13. Franco-Dutch War.






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






15. Jamestown massacre - Algonquian natives kill 347 English settlers outside Jamestown - Virginia (1/3 of the colony's population) and burn the Henricus settlement.






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






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






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






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






20. The Great Plague of London.






21. The Peace of Westphalia ends the Thirty Years' War and the Eighty Years' War and marks the ends of Spain and the Holy Roman Empire as major European powers.






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






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






24. Cardinal Richelieu allies with Swedish Protestant forces in the Thirty Years' War to counter Ferdinand II's expansion.






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






26. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






27. Lithuanian Civil War






28. The Great Plague of Seville.






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






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






31. Naval Battle of the Downs






32. Ottoman war with Venice. The Ottomans invade Crete and capture Canea.






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






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






35. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






36. China conquers the Kingdom of Tungning and annexes Taiwan.






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






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






39. After modernizing his army - Abbas I expands the Persian Empire by capturing territory from the Ottomans and the Portuguese.






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






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






42. La Salle explores the length of the Mississippi River and claims Louisiana for France.






43. Peace Treaty of Lisbon between Spain and Portugal recognizes Portugal as independent country.






44. Aurochs go extinct.






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






46. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






47. Emperor Ferdinand II defeats the Bohemian rebels in the Battle of White Mountain.






48. New Amsterdam founded by the Dutch WestIndia Company in North America.






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






50. Mehmed K