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17th Century Timeline

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1. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






2. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






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






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






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






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






7. Shimabara Rebellion of Japanese Christians - ronin and peasants against Edo.






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






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






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






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






12. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






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






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






15. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






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






17. The fortresses of Veszpr






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






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






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






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






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






23. The Northern Wars cement Sweden's rise as a Great Power.






24. Giovanni Battista Pamphili is elected PopeInnocent X at the Papal conclave of 1644.






25. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






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






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






28. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






29. Cape Town founded by the Dutch EastIndia Company in South Africa.






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






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






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






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






34. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






35. The Northern Wars cement Sweden's rise as a Great Power.






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






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






38. 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






39. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






40. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






41. Cape Town founded by the Dutch EastIndia Company in South Africa.






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






43. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






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






45. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






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






47. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






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






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






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