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17th Century Timeline

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1. The Raid on the Medway during the Second Anglo-Dutch War.






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






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






4. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






5. 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.






6. The Irish Rebellion.






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8. After modernizing his army - Abbas I expands the Persian Empire by capturing territory from the Ottomans and the Portuguese.






9. The Great Fire of London.






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






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






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






13. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






14. 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






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






16. William ascends to the throne over England - Scotland - and Ireland.






17. Famine in France kills 2 million.






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






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






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






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






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






24. 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.






25. The earliest known first-class cricket match took place in Sussex.






26. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






27. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






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






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






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






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






32. The Great Plague of London.






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






34. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






35. The last remaining Moriscos (Moors who had nominally converted to Christianity) in Spain are expelled.






36. Mount Vesuvius erupts






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






38. The Bank of England is established.






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






40. Capture of Ormuz; The island of Hormuz was captured by an Anglo-Persian force from Portuguese.






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






42. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






43. Naval Battle of the Downs






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






45. Giovanni Battista Pamphili is elected PopeInnocent X at the Papal conclave of 1644.






46. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






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






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






49. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






50. Aurochs go extinct.