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17th Century Timeline

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1. Sultan Mehmed IV - advised by Kara Mustafa - decides to disregard the existing peace treaty with Leopold I - due to expire in 1684.






2. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






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






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






5. Aurochs go extinct.






6. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






7. English Civil War ends with the Parliamentarian victory at the Battle of Worcester.






8. Polish






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






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






11. The Deluge wars leave Polish






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






13. Thomas Savery demonstrates his first steam engine to the Royal Society.






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






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






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






17. The Great Plague of London.






18. Mary II of England dies






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






20. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






21. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






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






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






24. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






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






26. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






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






28. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






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






30. Lithuanian Civil War






31. Emperor Fasilides expels the Catholic Patriarch Afonso Mendes and several Jesuit missionaries from Ethiopia.






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






33. Treaty of Vienna ends anti-Habsburg uprising in Royal Hungary.






34. The Long War between the Ottoman Empire and Austria is ended with the Peace of Zsitvatorok - Austria abandons Transylvania.






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






36. The Bank of England is established.






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






38. The Siege of Derry.






39. The Great Plague of Seville.






40. The reign of the Kangxi Emperor of China begins.






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






42. The Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth army defeats combined Russian- Swedish forces at the Battle of Klushino and conquers Moscow.






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






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






45. Russia and the Ottoman Empire commence the Russo-Turkish Wars.






46. Louis XIV accepts the Spanish crown on behalf of his grandson Philip of Anjou - triggering the War of the Spanish Succession






47. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






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






49. The Ottomans capture Crete.






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