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17th Century Timeline

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






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






3. France takes full political and military control over its colonial possessions in New France.






4. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






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






6. Polish






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






8. Naval Battle of the Downs






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






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






11. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






12. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






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






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






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






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






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






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






19. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






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






21. The Irish Rebellion.






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






23. The Russian famine of 1601






24. The Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth army defeats combined Russian- Swedish forces at the Battle of Klushino and conquers Moscow.






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






26. Polish-Ottoman War.






27. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






28. Pedro de Peralta - governor of New Mexico - establishes the settlement of Santa Fe.






29. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






30. Polish






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






32. Mary II of England dies






33. Torture is outlawed in England.






34. Torture is outlawed in England.






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






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






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






38. Franco-Dutch War.






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






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






41. Famine in France kills 2 million.






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






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






45. The Russian famine of 1601






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






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






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






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






50. Rampjaar in the Netherlands