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17th Century Timeline

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






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






3. Naval Battle of the Downs






4. Polish






5. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






6. Aurochs go extinct.






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






8. The fortresses of Veszpr






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






10. Battle of N






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






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






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






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






15. The Defenestration of Prague






16. The Great Fire of London.






17. Polish






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






19. Franco-Dutch War.






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






21. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






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






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






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






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






26. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






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






28. The Time of Troubles in Russia ends with the establishment of the House of Romanov which rules until 1917.






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






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






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






32. The Treaty of Westminster ends the war between England and the Republic of the United Provinces.






33. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






34. Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before theInquisition.






35. 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






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






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






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






39. After his father Shah Jahan completes the Taj Mahal - his son Aurangzeb deposes him as ruler of the Mughal Empire.






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






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






42. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






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






44. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






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






46. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






47. Aurochs go extinct.






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






49. Mary II of England dies






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