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17th Century Timeline

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






2. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






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






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






5. The Manchus start invading China. Their conquest eventually topples the Ming Dynasty.






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






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






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9. Polish-Ottoman War.






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






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12. China conquers the Kingdom of Tungning and annexes Taiwan.






13. Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman achieves the first recorded European sighting of New Zealand.






14. The Battle of Chocim - Poles and Cossacks under Jan Karol Chodkiewicz defeat the Ottomans.






15. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






16. 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






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






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






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






20. 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.






21. The Bank of England is established.






22. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






23. Mount Vesuvius erupts






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






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






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






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






29. The Deluge wars leave Polish






30. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






31. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






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






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






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






35. Mary II of England dies






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






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






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






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






40. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






41. The Battle of Vienna finishes the Ottoman Empire's hegemony in south-eastern Europe.






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






43. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






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






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






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






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






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49. Louis XIV accepts the Spanish crown on behalf of his grandson Philip of Anjou - triggering the War of the Spanish Succession






50. Lithuanian Civil War