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17th Century Timeline

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1. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






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






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






4. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






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






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






7. Battle of N






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






16. The Deluge wars leave Polish






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






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






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






20. Mehmed K






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






22. The Deluge wars leave Polish






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






24. Louis XIV accepts the Spanish crown on behalf of his grandson Philip of Anjou - triggering the War of the Spanish Succession






25. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






26. Antoni van Leeuwenhoek is the first to observe microbes with a homemade microscope - using samples he collected from his teeth scrapings - raindrops - and his own feces. He calls them 'animalcules.'






27. Antoni van Leeuwenhoek is the first to observe microbes with a homemade microscope - using samples he collected from his teeth scrapings - raindrops - and his own feces. He calls them 'animalcules.'






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






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






30. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






31. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






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






33. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






34. Battle of L






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






36. The Great Fire of London.






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






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






39. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






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






41. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






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






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






44. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






45. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






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






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






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






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






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







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