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17th Century Timeline

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1. The Second Anglo-Dutch War fought between England and the United Provinces.






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






3. Mary II of England dies






4. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






5. The Deluge wars leave Polish






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






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






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






9. Polish






10. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






11. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






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






13. Torture is outlawed in England.






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






15. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






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






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






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






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






20. A Habsburg council of war is held in Vienna.






21. The Ottomans capture Crete from the Venetians after the Siege of Candia.






22. The Battle of Vienna finishes the Ottoman Empire's hegemony in south-eastern Europe.






23. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






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






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






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






27. Mehmed K






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






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






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






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






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






33. Russia supplants Sweden as the dominant Baltic power after the Great Northern War.






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






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






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






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






38. The Siege of Derry.






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






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






41. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






42. Time of Troubles - Vasili IV becomes Tzar of Russia.






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






44. Ren






45. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






46. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






47. Edict of Fontainebleau outlaws Protestantism in France. King Charles II dies






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






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






50. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.







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