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17th Century Timeline

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1. Ottoman campaign to help the Ukrainian Cossacks. John Sobieski defeats the Ottomans at the second battle of Khotyn (1673).






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






3. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






4. Aurochs go extinct.






5. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






6. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






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






8. The fortresses of Veszpr






9. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






10. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






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






12. Torture is outlawed in England.






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






14. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






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






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






17. 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.






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






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






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






21. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






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






23. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






24. The Irish Rebellion.






25. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Pernambuco and founds Dutch Brazil.






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






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






28. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






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






30. The Russian famine of 1601






31. The Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas - the oldest existing university in Asia - established by the Dominican Order in Manila






32. Mount Vesuvius erupts






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






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






35. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






36. Famine in France kills 2 million.






37. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






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






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






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






41. Thomas Savery demonstrates his first steam engine to the Royal Society.






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






43. English Civil War ends with the Parliamentarian victory at the Battle of Worcester.






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






46. 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






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






48. Mehmed K






49. The Deluge wars leave Polish






50. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.