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17th Century Timeline

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






2. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






3. The Defenestration of Prague






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






5. 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.






6. The Defenestration of Prague






7. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






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






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






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






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






13. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






14. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






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. The Bank of England is established.






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






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






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






21. After his father Shah Jahan completes the Taj Mahal - his son Aurangzeb deposes him as ruler of the Mughal Empire.






22. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






23. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






24. The Treaty of Nerchinsk established a border between Russia and China.






25. Fronde civil war in France.






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






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






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






29. The Portuguese Restoration War led to the end of the Iberian Union.






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31. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






39. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






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






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






42. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






43. The fortresses of Veszpr






44. Franco-Dutch War.






45. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






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






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






48. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






49. Naval Battle of the Downs






50. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.