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17th Century Timeline

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1. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






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






3. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






4. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






5. The Brownist Pilgrims arrive in the Mayflower at Cape Cod






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






14. The Ottomans capture Crete.






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






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






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






19. 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.






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






21. The Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas - the oldest existing university in Asia - established by the Dominican Order in Manila






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






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






24. Sultan Mehmed IV - advised by Kara Mustafa - decides to disregard the existing peace treaty with Leopold I - due to expire in 1684.






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






26. The Bank of England is established.






27. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






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






29. British troops capture New Amsterdam and rename it New York.






30. The Bank of England is established.






31. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






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






33. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






34. 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.'






35. Franco-Dutch War.






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






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






38. The Portuguese Restoration War led to the end of the Iberian Union.






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






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






41. The earliest known first-class cricket match took place in Sussex.






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






43. 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






44. 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






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






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






47. The fortresses of Veszpr






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






49. The Russian famine of 1601






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