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17th Century Timeline

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1. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






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






3. The Bohemian Revolt precipitates the Thirty Years' War which devastates Europe in the years 1618






4. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Pernambuco and founds Dutch Brazil.






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






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






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






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






9. France takes full political and military control over its colonial possessions in New France.






10. The Defenestration of Prague






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






12. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






13. The Raid on the Medway during the Second Anglo-Dutch War.






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






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






16. Bethlen Gabor allies with the Ottomans and an invasion of Moldavia takes place. The Polish suffer a disaster at Cecora on the River Prut.






17. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Bahia in Brazil.






18. After modernizing his army - Abbas I expands the Persian Empire by capturing territory from the Ottomans and the Portuguese.






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






20. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






21. Wars of the Three Kingdoms - civil wars throughout Scotland - Ireland - and England.






22. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






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






24. Portugal defeats the Kongo Empire at the Battle of Mbwila.






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






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






27. Mary II of England dies






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






29. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






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






31. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






32. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






33. 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






34. The Siege of Derry.






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






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






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






38. Dutch EastIndia Company founded. Its success contributes to the Dutch Golden Age.






39. The fortresses of Veszpr






40. Mehmed K






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






42. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






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






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






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






46. Polish






47. Famine in France kills 2 million.






48. The Great Fire of London.






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






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