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17th Century Timeline

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1. After modernizing his army - Abbas I expands the Persian Empire by capturing territory from the Ottomans and the Portuguese.






2. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






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






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






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






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






7. Aurochs go extinct.






8. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






9. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






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






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






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






15. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






16. Mount Vesuvius erupts






17. British troops capture New Amsterdam and rename it New York.






18. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






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






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






21. Emperor Ferdinand II defeats the Bohemian rebels in the Battle of White Mountain.






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






23. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






24. Bethlen Gabor - Prince of Transylvania joins Protestant Rebels.






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






26. 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.






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






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






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






30. Fronde civil war in France.






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






32. Treaty of Vienna ends anti-Habsburg uprising in Royal Hungary.






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






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






35. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






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






37. The Northern Wars cement Sweden's rise as a Great Power.






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






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






41. The Bank of England is established.






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






43. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






44. The Northern Wars cement Sweden's rise as a Great Power.






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






46. Seven-year-old Mehmed IV becomes sultan.






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






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






49. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






50. The Ottomans capture Crete.