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17th Century Timeline

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1. The Ottomans capture Crete.






2. The fortresses of Veszpr






3. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






4. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






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






6. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






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






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






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






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






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






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






13. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






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






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






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






17. King Charles was compelled to summon Parliament due to the revolt of the Scots.






18. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






19. 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






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






21. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






22. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






23. The Battle of Chocim - Poles and Cossacks under Jan Karol Chodkiewicz defeat the Ottomans.






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






25. Lithuanian Civil War






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






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






28. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






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






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






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






32. The Great Turkish War halts the Ottoman Empire's expansion into Europe.






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






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






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






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






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






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






39. Lithuanian Civil War






40. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






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






42. The Great Plague of Seville.






43. 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.






44. Famine in France kills 2 million.






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






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






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






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






49. The Netherlands and Spain agree to a Twelve Years' Truce in the Eighty Years' War.






50. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.