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17th Century Timeline

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1. Bethlen Gabor - Prince of Transylvania joins Protestant Rebels.






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






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4. Torture is outlawed in England.






5. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






6. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






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






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






9. Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before theInquisition.






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






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






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






13. The Great Plague of London.






14. Bethlen Gabor - Prince of Transylvania joins Protestant Rebels.






15. The Raid on the Medway during the Second Anglo-Dutch War.






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






17. Fronde civil war in France.






18. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






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






20. The War of Devolution; France invades the Netherlands. The Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle (1668) brings this to a halt.






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






22. Naval Battle of the Downs






23. The 1700 Cascadia earthquake (magnitude 9) occurs off the coast of the Pacific Northwest; Japan is struck by a tsunami.






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






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






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






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






28. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






29. Edict of Fontainebleau outlaws Protestantism in France. King Charles II dies






30. The Defenestration of Prague






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






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






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






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






35. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






36. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






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






38. Franco-Dutch War.






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






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






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






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






44. The Northern Wars cement Sweden's rise as a Great Power.






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






47. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






48. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






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






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