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17th Century Timeline

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1. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






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






3. The Deluge wars leave Polish






4. Franco-Dutch War.






5. Polish-Ottoman War.






6. Elizabeth I of England dies and is succeeded by her cousin King James VI of Scotland - uniting the crowns of Scotland and England.






7. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






8. The 1700 Cascadia earthquake (magnitude 9) occurs off the coast of the Pacific Northwest; Japan is struck by a tsunami.






9. The Siege of Derry.






10. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






11. The Battle of St. Gotthard - Count Raimondo Montecuccoli defeats the Ottomans. The Peace of Vasvar






12. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






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






14. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






15. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






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






17. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






18. Elizabeth I of England dies and is succeeded by her cousin King James VI of Scotland - uniting the crowns of Scotland and England.






19. English Civil War ends with the Parliamentarian victory at the Battle of Worcester.






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






21. The Defenestration of Prague






22. Franco-Dutch War.






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






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






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






26. Aurochs go extinct.






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






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






29. Mount Vesuvius erupts






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






31. 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






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






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






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






35. As chief minister - Cardinal Richelieu centralises power in France.






36. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






37. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






38. Polish-Ottoman War.






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






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






42. Battle of L






43. Mount Vesuvius erupts






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






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






46. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






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






48. After modernizing his army - Abbas I expands the Persian Empire by capturing territory from the Ottomans and the Portuguese.






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






50. Torture is outlawed in England.