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17th Century Timeline

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






2. The Bank of England is established.






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






4. Fronde civil war in France.






5. Battle of N






6. The Russian famine of 1601






7. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






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






9. Aurochs go extinct.






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






11. The Peace of Westphalia ends the Thirty Years' War and the Eighty Years' War and marks the ends of Spain and the Holy Roman Empire as major European powers.






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






13. After his father Shah Jahan completes the Taj Mahal - his son Aurangzeb deposes him as ruler of the Mughal Empire.






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






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






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






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






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






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






20. The Defenestration of Prague






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






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






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






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






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






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






27. Pedro de Peralta - governor of New Mexico - establishes the settlement of Santa Fe.






28. Naval Battle of the Downs






29. The Long War between the Ottoman Empire and Austria is ended with the Peace of Zsitvatorok - Austria abandons Transylvania.






30. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






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






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






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






34. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






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






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






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






38. The Brownist Pilgrims arrive in the Mayflower at Cape Cod






39. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






46. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






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






48. 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.






49. Battle of Kinsale - one of the most important battles in Irish history - fought.






50. Torture is outlawed in England.