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17th Century Timeline

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1. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






2. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






3. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






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






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






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






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






8. The Manchus start invading China. Their conquest eventually topples the Ming Dynasty.






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






10. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






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






12. The fortresses of Veszpr






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






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






15. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






16. 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.






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






18. Ren






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






20. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






21. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






22. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






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






24. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






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






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






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






28. The Manchus start invading China. Their conquest eventually topples the Ming Dynasty.






29. Polish-Ottoman War.






30. Franco-Dutch War.






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






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






33. The Great Plague of London.






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






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






36. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






37. The Great Plague of London.






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






39. Pedro de Peralta - governor of New Mexico - establishes the settlement of Santa Fe.






40. The Bank of England is established.






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






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






43. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






44. Battle of N






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






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






47. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






48. Battle of Kinsale - one of the most important battles in Irish history - fought.






49. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






50. The Commonwealth of England ends and the monarchy is brought back during the English Restoration.







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