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17th Century Timeline

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






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






3. Torture is outlawed in England.






4. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






5. Ren






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






7. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






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






9. Time of Troubles - Vasili IV becomes Tzar of Russia.






10. The Russian famine of 1601






11. Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before theInquisition.






12. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






13. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






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






15. Russia supplants Sweden as the dominant Baltic power after the Great Northern War.






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






17. 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.






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






19. Koxinga captures Taiwan from the Dutch and founds the Kingdom of Tungning which rules until 1683.






20. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






21. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






22. Franco-Dutch War.






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






24. Koxinga captures Taiwan from the Dutch and founds the Kingdom of Tungning which rules until 1683.






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






26. Fronde civil war in France.






27. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






28. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






29. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






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






31. Mount Vesuvius erupts






32. Jamestown massacre - Algonquian natives kill 347 English settlers outside Jamestown - Virginia (1/3 of the colony's population) and burn the Henricus settlement.






33. The Battle of Vienna finishes the Ottoman Empire's hegemony in south-eastern Europe.






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






35. 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.






36. Cape Town founded by the Dutch EastIndia Company in South Africa.






37. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






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






39. The Siege of Derry.






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






41. 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






42. The Mughal Empire nearly bans the EastIndia Company in response to pirate Henry Every's capture of the Ganj-i-Sawai






43. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






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






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






46. The Mughal Empire nearly bans the EastIndia Company in response to pirate Henry Every's capture of the Ganj-i-Sawai






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






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






49. The Great Plague of Seville.






50. Famine in Finland wipes out almost a third of the population.






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