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17th Century Timeline

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






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






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






4. Dutch EastIndia Company founded. Its success contributes to the Dutch Golden Age.






5. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Bahia in Brazil.






6. 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






7. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






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






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






10. La Salle explores the length of the Mississippi River and claims Louisiana for France.






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






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






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






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






15. English Civil War ends with the Parliamentarian victory at the Battle of Worcester.






16. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






17. The Mughal Empire nearly bans the EastIndia Company in response to pirate Henry Every's capture of the Ganj-i-Sawai






18. Torture is outlawed in England.






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






20. Dutch EastIndia Company founded. Its success contributes to the Dutch Golden Age.






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






22. Torture is outlawed in England.






23. The Bank of England is established.






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25. 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.'






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






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






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






29. The Pueblo Revolt drives the Spanish out of New Mexico until 1692.






30. Tokugawa Ieyasu seizes control of Japan and establishes the Tokugawa Shogunate - beginning the Edo period that lasts until 1869.






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






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






33. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






34. The fortresses of Veszpr






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






36. Aurochs go extinct.






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






38. The Irish Rebellion.






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






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






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






42. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






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






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






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






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






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






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49. The Irish Rebellion.






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