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17th Century Timeline

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






2. The Treaty of Westminster ends the war between England and the Republic of the United Provinces.






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






4. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






5. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






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






7. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






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






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






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






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






13. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






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






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






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






17. Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before theInquisition.






18. 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.'






19. Lithuanian Civil War






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






21. France takes full political and military control over its colonial possessions in New France.






22. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






31. Mary II of England dies






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






33. Torture is outlawed in England.






34. Battle of N






35. The fortresses of Veszpr






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






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






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






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






40. Edict of Fontainebleau outlaws Protestantism in France. King Charles II dies






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






42. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






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






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






45. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






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






47. The Defenestration of Prague






48. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






49. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






50. Aurochs go extinct.