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17th Century Timeline

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1. Naval Battle of the Downs






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






3. The Ottomans capture Crete.






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






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






6. The Deluge wars leave Polish






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8. 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.'






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






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






11. Franco-Dutch War.






12. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






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






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






15. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






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






17. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






18. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






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






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






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






22. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






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






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






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






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






28. Aurochs go extinct.






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






30. Famine in Finland wipes out almost a third of the population.






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






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






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






34. Cardinal Richelieu lays siege to Protestant La Rochelle which eventually capitulates.






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






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






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






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






40. The Irish Rebellion.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






49. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






50. John Evelyn's forestry book - Sylva - is published in England.