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17th Century Timeline

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






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






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






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






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






7. The Irish Rebellion.






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






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






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






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






12. The Siege of Derry.






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






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






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






16. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






17. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






23. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






24. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






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






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






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






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






29. Elizabeth I of England dies and is succeeded by her cousin King James VI of Scotland - uniting the crowns of Scotland and England.






30. Peter the Great becomes joint ruler of Russia (sole tsar in 1696).






31. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






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






33. The Great Fire of London.






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






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






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






37. The Russian famine of 1601






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






39. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






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






41. Flight of the Earls (the fleeing of most of the native Gaelic aristocracy) occurs from County Donegal in the west of Ulster in Ireland.






42. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






43. Maffeo Barberini is elected Pope Urban VIII at the Papal conclave of 1623.






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






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






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






49. Famine in France kills 2 million.






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







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