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17th Century Timeline

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1. Polish






2. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






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






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






5. Dutch EastIndia Company founded. Its success contributes to the Dutch Golden Age.






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






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






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






9. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






15. Lithuanian Civil War






16. The Russian famine of 1601






17. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






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






19. The Deluge wars leave Polish






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






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






22. The Ottomans capture Crete.






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






24. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






25. Jamestown - Virginia - is settled as what would become the first permanent English colony in North America.






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






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






28. Ren






29. Mary II of England dies






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






31. Mehmed K






32. Edict of Fontainebleau outlaws Protestantism in France. King Charles II dies






33. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






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






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






36. The Siege of Derry.






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






38. Naval Battle of the Downs






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






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






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






42. Torture is outlawed in England.






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






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. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






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






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






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






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






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







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