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17th Century Timeline

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1. The fortresses of Veszpr






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






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






4. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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13. Battle of N






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






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






16. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






17. The Bank of England is established.






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






19. 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.






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






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






22. Franco-Dutch War.






23. The Siege of Derry.






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






25. Mount Vesuvius erupts






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






27. Lithuanian Civil War






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






29. Torture is outlawed in England.






30. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






31. The Mughal Empire nearly bans the EastIndia Company in response to pirate Henry Every's capture of the Ganj-i-Sawai






32. Famine in Finland wipes out almost a third of the population.






33. The Great Fire of London.






34. The Defenestration of Prague






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






36. The Siege of Derry.






37. The Great Plague of Seville.






38. China conquers the Kingdom of Tungning and annexes Taiwan.






39. Quebec City founded by Samuel de Champlain in New France (present-day Canada).






40. Franco-Dutch War.






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






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






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






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






45. Siamese revolution of 1688 ousted French influence and virtually severed all ties with the West until the 19th century.






46. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






47. The Irish Rebellion.






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






49. The Great Plague of London.






50. Polish-Ottoman War.