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17th Century Timeline

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1. The Irish Rebellion.






2. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






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






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






5. Aurochs go extinct.






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






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






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






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






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






11. 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.






12. 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.






13. The Russian famine of 1601






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






15. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






16. 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.






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






18. Torture is outlawed in England.






19. After his father Shah Jahan completes the Taj Mahal - his son Aurangzeb deposes him as ruler of the Mughal Empire.






20. Bethlen Gabor - Prince of Transylvania joins Protestant Rebels.






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






22. The Bank of England is established.






23. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






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






25. Fronde civil war in France.






26. The Defenestration of Prague






27. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






28. The Great Turkish War halts the Ottoman Empire's expansion into Europe.






29. Mehmed K






30. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






31. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






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






33. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






34. The Ottomans capture Crete.






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






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






37. The Great Plague of London.






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






39. The Netherlands and Spain agree to a Twelve Years' Truce in the Eighty Years' War.






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






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






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






43. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






44. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






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






46. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






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






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






49. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






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