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17th Century Timeline

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






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






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






4. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






5. The Great Fire of London.






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






7. Ren






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






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






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






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






12. Mount Vesuvius erupts






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






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






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






16. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






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






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






19. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






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






21. The Grand Alliance sought to stop French expansion during the Nine Years War.






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






23. Aurochs go extinct.






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






25. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






26. Beginning of English Civil War - conflict will end in 1651 with the execution of King Charles I - abolishment of the monarchy and the establishment of the supremacy of Parliament over the king.






27. Battle of N






28. The Russian famine of 1601






29. The Great Plague of London.






30. Franco-Dutch War.






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






32. The Siege of Derry.






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






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






35. Treaty of Vienna ends anti-Habsburg uprising in Royal Hungary.






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






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






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






40. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






41. Naval Battle of the Downs






42. The Portuguese Restoration War led to the end of the Iberian Union.






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






44. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






45. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






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






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






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






49. Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman achieves the first recorded European sighting of New Zealand.






50. The Treaty of Karlowitz ends the Great Turkish War.