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17th Century Timeline

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






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






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






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






5. Bethlen Gabor allies with the Ottomans and an invasion of Moldavia takes place. The Polish suffer a disaster at Cecora on the River Prut.






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






7. 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.






8. Wars of the Three Kingdoms - civil wars throughout Scotland - Ireland - and England.






9. New Amsterdam founded by the Dutch WestIndia Company in North America.






10. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






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






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






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






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






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






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






17. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






18. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






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






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






21. Mount Vesuvius erupts






22. The Commonwealth of England ends and the monarchy is brought back during the English Restoration.






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






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






25. The death of Miyamoto Musashi - legendary Japanese Samurai warrior - of natural causes.






26. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






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






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






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






30. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






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






32. Ottoman campaign to help the Ukrainian Cossacks. John Sobieski defeats the Ottomans at the second battle of Khotyn (1673).






33. Famine in France kills 2 million.






34. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






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






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






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






38. Mehmed K






39. The Bank of England is established.






40. The Siege of Derry.






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






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






43. Famine in France kills 2 million.






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






45. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






46. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






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






48. The Great Plague of Seville.






49. Michael the Brave (first unificator of Romania) - voivode of Wallachia - Moldavia and Transylvania - is assassinated by the order of the Habsburg general Giorgio Basta at C






50. The Great Fire of London.