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17th Century Timeline

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






2. Michael the Brave (first unificator of Romania) - voivode of Wallachia - Moldavia and Transylvania - is assassinated by the order of the Habsburg general Giorgio Basta at C






3. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






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






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






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






7. The fortresses of Veszpr






8. The Ottomans capture Crete.






9. The Bank of England is established.






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






11. Lithuanian Civil War






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






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






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






15. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






16. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






17. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






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






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






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






22. The Treaty of Nerchinsk established a border between Russia and China.






23. The Peace of Westphalia ends the Thirty Years' War and the Eighty Years' War and marks the ends of Spain and the Holy Roman Empire as major European powers.






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






25. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






26. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






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






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






29. Famine in France kills 2 million.






30. Pedro de Peralta - governor of New Mexico - establishes the settlement of Santa Fe.






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






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






33. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






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






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






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






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






39. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






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






41. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






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






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






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






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






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






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






48. 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.






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






50. The Treaty of Westminster ends the war between England and the Republic of the United Provinces.