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17th Century Timeline

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1. Wars of the Three Kingdoms - civil wars throughout Scotland - Ireland - and England.






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






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






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






5. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






6. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






7. The Great Plague of London.






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






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






10. The Great Fire of London.






11. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






12. The Battle of Chocim - Poles and Cossacks under Jan Karol Chodkiewicz defeat the Ottomans.






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






14. Fronde civil war in France.






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






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






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






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






19. China conquers the Kingdom of Tungning and annexes Taiwan.






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






21. Torture is outlawed in England.






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






23. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






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






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






26. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






27. The Ottomans capture Crete.






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






29. Famine in France kills 2 million.






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






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






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






33. The Ottomans capture Crete.






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






35. Torture is outlawed in England.






36. Battle of L






37. 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






38. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






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






40. The Hudson's Bay Company is founded in Canada.






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






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






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






44. Mehmed K






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






46. The Bank of England is established.






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






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






49. Mary II of England dies






50. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.