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17th Century Timeline

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






2. Lithuanian Civil War






3. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






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






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






6. The Peace of Westphalia ends the Thirty Years' War and the Eighty Years' War and marks the ends of Spain and the Holy Roman Empire as major European powers.






7. 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.






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






9. 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.






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






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






12. Polish






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






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






15. Koxinga captures Taiwan from the Dutch and founds the Kingdom of Tungning which rules until 1683.






16. Cape Town founded by the Dutch EastIndia Company in South Africa.






17. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






18. New Amsterdam founded by the Dutch WestIndia Company in North America.






19. William ascends to the throne over England - Scotland - and Ireland.






20. 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






21. William ascends to the throne over England - Scotland - and Ireland.






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






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






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






25. Famine in Finland wipes out almost a third of the population.






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






27. The Great Plague of London.






28. The Great Plague of London.






29. 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






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






31. The Grand Alliance sought to stop French expansion during the Nine Years War.






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






33. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






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






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






36. Mehmed K






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






38. Fronde civil war in France.






39. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






40. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






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






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






43. Mary II of England dies






44. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






45. Battle of L






46. The Russian famine of 1601






47. The Bank of England is established.






48. The Great Plague of Seville.






49. The Great Fire of London.






50. 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.







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