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17th Century Timeline

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1. The Siege of Derry.






2. Mount Vesuvius erupts






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






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






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






6. Fronde civil war in France.






7. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






8. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






9. The Great Fire of London.






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






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






12. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






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






14. 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






15. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






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






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






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






20. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






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






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






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






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






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






26. The Great Plague of Seville.






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






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






29. 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.'






30. Mehmed K






31. The Great Fire of London.






32. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






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






34. 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






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






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






37. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






38. Wars of the Three Kingdoms - civil wars throughout Scotland - Ireland - and England.






39. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






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






41. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






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






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






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






45. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






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






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






48. Beginning of English Civil War - conflict will end in 1651 with the execution of King Charles I - abolishment of the monarchy and the establishment of the supremacy of Parliament over the king.






49. The Battle of Vienna finishes the Ottoman Empire's hegemony in south-eastern Europe.






50. Naval Battle of the Downs







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