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17th Century Timeline

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






2. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






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






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






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






6. The Great Plague of London.






7. New Amsterdam founded by the Dutch WestIndia Company in North America.






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






9. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






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






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






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






13. Polish-Ottoman War.






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






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






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






17. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






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






19. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






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






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






22. The Defenestration of Prague






23. Polish






24. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






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






26. 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






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






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






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






30. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






31. Flight of the Earls (the fleeing of most of the native Gaelic aristocracy) occurs from County Donegal in the west of Ulster in Ireland.






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






33. The Irish Rebellion.






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






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






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






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






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






39. The Deluge wars leave Polish






40. Captain Willem Janszoon and his crew aboard the Dutch EastIndia Company ship Duyfken becomes the first recorded Europeans to sight and make landfall in Australia.






41. The Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth army defeats combined Russian- Swedish forces at the Battle of Klushino and conquers Moscow.






42. Naval Battle of the Downs






43. Captain Willem Janszoon and his crew aboard the Dutch EastIndia Company ship Duyfken becomes the first recorded Europeans to sight and make landfall in Australia.






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






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






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






47. New Amsterdam founded by the Dutch WestIndia Company in North America.






48. 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.






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






50. Polish