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17th Century Timeline

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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






10. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






11. Michael the Brave (first unificator of Romania) - voivode of Wallachia - Moldavia and Transylvania - is assassinated by the order of the Habsburg general Giorgio Basta at C






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






13. Famine in France kills 2 million.






14. 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






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






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






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






18. Mehmed K






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






20. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






21. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






29. The College of William and Mary is founded in Williamsburg - Virginia by a royal charter.






30. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






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






32. The Great Fire of London.






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






34. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






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






36. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






37. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






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






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






40. Mount Vesuvius erupts






41. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






42. St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican completed.






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






44. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






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






46. The Irish Rebellion.






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






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






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






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






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