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17th Century Timeline

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






2. The death of Miyamoto Musashi - legendary Japanese Samurai warrior - of natural causes.






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






4. 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






5. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






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






7. 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.






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






9. Mount Vesuvius erupts






10. The Treaty of Karlowitz ends the Great Turkish War.






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






12. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






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






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






15. The reign of the Kangxi Emperor of China begins.






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






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






18. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






19. The Ottomans capture Crete from the Venetians after the Siege of Candia.






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






21. The fortresses of Veszpr






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






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






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






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






26. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






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






28. The Irish Rebellion.






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






30. Battle of L






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






32. Bethlen Gabor - Prince of Transylvania joins Protestant Rebels.






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






34. The Great Fire of London.






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






36. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






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






38. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






39. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






40. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






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






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






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






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






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






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






47. The Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas - the oldest existing university in Asia - established by the Dominican Order in Manila






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






49. A Habsburg council of war is held in Vienna.






50. Battle of N