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17th Century Timeline

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






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






3. The Ottomans capture Crete.






4. The death of Miyamoto Musashi - legendary Japanese Samurai warrior - of natural causes.






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






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






7. Cardinal Richelieu lays siege to Protestant La Rochelle which eventually capitulates.






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






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






10. The Manchus start invading China. Their conquest eventually topples the Ming Dynasty.






11. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






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






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






14. Mehmed K






15. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






16. Fronde civil war in France.






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






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






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






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






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






22. Emperor Ferdinand II defeats the Bohemian rebels in the Battle of White Mountain.






23. Polish-Ottoman War.






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






25. The Siege of Derry.






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






27. The Bank of England is established.






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






29. Polish






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






31. The Irish Rebellion.






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






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






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






35. Peter the Great becomes joint ruler of Russia (sole tsar in 1696).






36. Siamese revolution of 1688 ousted French influence and virtually severed all ties with the West until the 19th century.






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






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






39. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






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






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






42. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






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






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






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






46. Battle of N






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






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






49. 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.'






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