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17th Century Timeline

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






2. The Irish Rebellion.






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






4. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






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






6. Torture is outlawed in England.






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






8. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






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






10. The War of Devolution; France invades the Netherlands. The Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle (1668) brings this to a halt.






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






12. Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge founded.






13. The Deluge wars leave Polish






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






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






16. Battle of L






17. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






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






19. St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican completed.






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






21. The Treaty of Nerchinsk established a border between Russia and China.






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






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






24. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






25. 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






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






27. The Defenestration of Prague






28. Peter the Great becomes joint ruler of Russia (sole tsar in 1696).






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






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






31. Cardinal Richelieu allies with Swedish Protestant forces in the Thirty Years' War to counter Ferdinand II's expansion.






32. Shimabara Rebellion of Japanese Christians - ronin and peasants against Edo.






33. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






34. Mount Vesuvius erupts






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






36. 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.






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






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






39. Franco-Dutch War.






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






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






42. The Bohemian Revolt precipitates the Thirty Years' War which devastates Europe in the years 1618






43. The Great Plague of Seville.






44. 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.






45. The death of Miyamoto Musashi - legendary Japanese Samurai warrior - of natural causes.






46. The Glorious Revolution starts with the Dutch Republic invading England - England becomes a constitutional monarchy.






47. Antoni van Leeuwenhoek is the first to observe microbes with a homemade microscope - using samples he collected from his teeth scrapings - raindrops - and his own feces. He calls them 'animalcules.'






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






49. Battle of N






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







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