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17th Century Timeline

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






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






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






4. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






5. Bethlen Gabor - Prince of Transylvania joins Protestant Rebels.






6. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






7. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






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






9. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






10. The Defenestration of Prague






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






12. Polish-Ottoman War.






13. 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






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






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






16. Torture is outlawed in England.






17. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






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






19. Capture of Ormuz; The island of Hormuz was captured by an Anglo-Persian force from Portuguese.






20. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






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






22. Bethlen Gabor - Prince of Transylvania joins Protestant Rebels.






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






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






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






26. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






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






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






29. The Ottomans capture Crete.






30. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






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






32. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






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






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






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






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






37. The Deluge wars leave Polish






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






39. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






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






41. Naval Battle of the Downs






42. Fronde civil war in France.






43. The Great Plague of London.






44. Mary II of England dies






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






46. The Deluge wars leave Polish






47. As chief minister - Cardinal Richelieu centralises power in France.






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






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






50. The Irish Rebellion.