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17th Century Timeline

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






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






3. The Bank of England is established.






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






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






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






7. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






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






9. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






10. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






11. The Second Anglo-Dutch War fought between England and the United Provinces.






12. 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.






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






14. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






15. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






16. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






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






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






19. Torture is outlawed in England.






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






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






22. Fronde civil war in France.






23. Sultan Mehmed IV - advised by Kara Mustafa - decides to disregard the existing peace treaty with Leopold I - due to expire in 1684.






24. The Commonwealth of England ends and the monarchy is brought back during the English Restoration.






25. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






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






27. The Tokugawa Shogunate institutes Sakoku- foreigners are expelled and no one is allowed to enter or leave Japan.






28. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






29. Lithuanian Civil War






30. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






31. 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.






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






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






35. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






36. New Amsterdam founded by the Dutch WestIndia Company in North America.






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






38. The Battle of Killiecrankie is fought between Jacobite and Williamite forces in Highland Perthshire






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40. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






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






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






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






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






45. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






46. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






47. Ottoman war with Venice. The Ottomans invade Crete and capture Canea.






48. Seven-year-old Mehmed IV becomes sultan.






49. Shimabara Rebellion of Japanese Christians - ronin and peasants against Edo.






50. Emperor Ferdinand II defeats the Bohemian rebels in the Battle of White Mountain.