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17th Century Timeline

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






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






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






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






5. Time of Troubles - Vasili IV becomes Tzar of Russia.






6. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






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






8. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






9. The Great Plague of Seville.






10. The Siege of Derry.






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






12. 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.'






13. Battle of N






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






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






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






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






19. Famine in France kills 2 million.






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






21. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






22. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






23. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






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






25. Mount Vesuvius erupts






26. The Treaty of Karlowitz ends the Great Turkish War.






27. Captain Willem Janszoon and his crew aboard the Dutch EastIndia Company ship Duyfken becomes the first recorded Europeans to sight and make landfall in Australia.






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






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






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






31. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






32. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






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






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






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






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






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






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






39. 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.






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






41. Battle of L






42. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






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






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






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






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






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






49. Torture is outlawed in England.






50. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu