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17th Century Timeline

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1. Ren






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






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






4. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






5. The Great Plague of London.






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






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






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






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






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






11. 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.'






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






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






14. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






15. The fortresses of Veszpr






16. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






17. The Great Plague of Seville.






18. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






19. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






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






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






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






23. The Raid on the Medway during the Second Anglo-Dutch War.






24. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






25. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






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






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






28. Battle of N






29. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






30. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






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






32. Thomas Savery demonstrates his first steam engine to the Royal Society.






33. Polish-Ottoman War.






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






35. Elizabeth I of England dies and is succeeded by her cousin King James VI of Scotland - uniting the crowns of Scotland and England.






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






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






38. The Defenestration of Prague






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






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






41. 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.






42. Aurochs go extinct.






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






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






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






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






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






48. Fronde civil war in France.






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






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