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17th Century Timeline

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






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






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






4. Franco-Dutch War.






5. 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.'






6. The fortresses of Veszpr






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






8. Mount Vesuvius erupts






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






10. The Siege of Derry.






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






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






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






14. The Great Plague of London.






15. Fronde civil war in France.






16. Peace Treaty of Lisbon between Spain and Portugal recognizes Portugal as independent country.






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






18. Mary II of England dies






19. The Great Plague of London.






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






21. Famine in France kills 2 million.






22. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






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






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






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






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






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






28. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






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






30. The Glorious Revolution starts with the Dutch Republic invading England - England becomes a constitutional monarchy.






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






32. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






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






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






35. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






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






37. Mary II of England dies






38. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






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






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






41. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






42. The Bank of England is established.






43. Lithuanian Civil War






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






45. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






46. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






47. The 1700 Cascadia earthquake (magnitude 9) occurs off the coast of the Pacific Northwest; Japan is struck by a tsunami.






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






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






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