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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 Irish Rebellion.






3. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






4. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






5. Battle of N






6. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Bahia in Brazil.






7. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






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






9. Jacques Aymar-Vernay - who later reintroduced Dowsing into popular use in Europe - is born.






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






11. 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.






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






13. The Ottomans capture Crete.






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






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






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






17. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Bahia in Brazil.






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






19. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






20. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






21. Dutch EastIndia Company founded. Its success contributes to the Dutch Golden Age.






22. 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.






23. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






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






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






26. Battle of L






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






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






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






30. Mehmed K






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






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






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






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






35. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






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






37. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






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






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






40. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






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






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






43. The Great Fire of London.






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






45. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






46. The fortresses of Veszpr






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






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






49. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






50. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France