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17th Century Timeline

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






2. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






3. The Bank of England is established.






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






5. Lithuanian Civil War






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






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






8. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






9. Mount Vesuvius erupts






10. Russia supplants Sweden as the dominant Baltic power after the Great Northern War.






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






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






13. The Battle of Chocim - Poles and Cossacks under Jan Karol Chodkiewicz defeat the Ottomans.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






22. The Russian famine of 1601






23. 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.






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






25. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






26. Disagreements between the Farnese and Barberini Pope Urban VIII escalate into the Wars of Castro and last until 1649.






27. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






28. 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






29. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






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






31. Battle of Kinsale - one of the most important battles in Irish history - fought.






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






33. 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






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35. The Netherlands and Spain agree to a Twelve Years' Truce in the Eighty Years' War.






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






37. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






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






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40. The Irish Rebellion.






41. Aurochs go extinct.






42. Battle of Kinsale - one of the most important battles in Irish history - fought.






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






44. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






45. The Ottomans capture Crete.






46. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






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






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






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50. Mary II of England dies