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17th Century Timeline

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






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






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






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






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






6. The Defenestration of Prague






7. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






8. The Battle of St. Gotthard - Count Raimondo Montecuccoli defeats the Ottomans. The Peace of Vasvar






9. Russia and the Ottoman Empire commence the Russo-Turkish Wars.






10. The Mughal Empire nearly bans the EastIndia Company in response to pirate Henry Every's capture of the Ganj-i-Sawai






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






12. Cape Town founded by the Dutch EastIndia Company in South Africa.






13. Battle of N






14. The Russian famine of 1601






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






16. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






17. Battle of L






18. Aurochs go extinct.






19. Franco-Dutch War.






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






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






22. The Great Fire of London.






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






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






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






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






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






28. Mehmed K






29. The Manchu conquer China ending the Ming Dynasty. The subsequent Qing Dynasty rules until 1912.






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






31. 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






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






33. Ottoman war with Venice. The Ottomans invade Crete and capture Canea.






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






35. Fronde civil war in France.






36. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






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






38. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






39. Polish






40. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






41. Polish






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






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






44. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






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






46. Famine in France kills 2 million.






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






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






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






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







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