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17th Century Timeline

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






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






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






4. Ottoman war with Venice. The Ottomans invade Crete and capture Canea.






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






6. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






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






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






9. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






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






11. Emperor Fasilides expels the Catholic Patriarch Afonso Mendes and several Jesuit missionaries from Ethiopia.






12. The Great Plague of Seville.






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






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






15. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






16. The Raid on the Medway during the Second Anglo-Dutch War.






17. Mary II of England dies






18. Mount Vesuvius erupts






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






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






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






24. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






25. The Raid on the Medway during the Second Anglo-Dutch War.






26. The Defenestration of Prague






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






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






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






32. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






33. The fortresses of Veszpr






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






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






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






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






39. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






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






41. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






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






43. The Siege of Derry.






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






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






46. The Karposh rebellion is crushed in present-day Republic of Macedonia - Skopje is retaken by the Ottoman Turks. Karposh is killed - and the rebels are defeated. Giles Cory was pressed to death during the Salem witch trials in the 1690s






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






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






49. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






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