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17th Century Timeline

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






2. Beginning of English Civil War - conflict will end in 1651 with the execution of King Charles I - abolishment of the monarchy and the establishment of the supremacy of Parliament over the king.






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






4. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






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






6. Shimabara Rebellion of Japanese Christians - ronin and peasants against Edo.






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






8. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






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






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






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






12. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






25. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






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






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






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






29. Koxinga captures Taiwan from the Dutch and founds the Kingdom of Tungning which rules until 1683.






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






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






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






33. The Great Fire of London.






34. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






35. John Locke publishes his first 'Letter Concerning Toleration'.






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






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






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






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






40. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






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






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






43. The Great Plague of London.






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






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






46. Famine in France kills 2 million.






47. Battle of N






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






49. The fortresses of Veszpr






50. The Karposh rebellion is crushed in present-day Republic of Macedonia - Skopje is retaken by the Ottoman Turks. Karposh is killed - and the rebels are defeated. Giles Cory was pressed to death during the Salem witch trials in the 1690s