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17th Century Timeline

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1. Torture is outlawed in England.






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






3. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






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






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






6. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






7. Naval Battle of the Downs






8. The Bank of England is established.






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






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






12. Aurochs go extinct.






13. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






14. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






15. The Great Plague of Seville.






16. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






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






18. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Bahia in Brazil.






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






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






21. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






22. The Karposh rebellion is crushed in present-day Republic of Macedonia - Skopje is retaken by the Ottoman Turks. Karposh is killed - and the rebels are defeated. Giles Cory was pressed to death during the Salem witch trials in the 1690s






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






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






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






26. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






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






28. The Long War between the Ottoman Empire and Austria is ended with the Peace of Zsitvatorok - Austria abandons Transylvania.






29. The Tokugawa Shogunate institutes Sakoku- foreigners are expelled and no one is allowed to enter or leave Japan.






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






31. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






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






33. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






34. The Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas - the oldest existing university in Asia - established by the Dominican Order in Manila






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






36. The Ottomans capture Crete.






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






39. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






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






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






42. 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.






43. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






44. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






45. Louis XIV accepts the Spanish crown on behalf of his grandson Philip of Anjou - triggering the War of the Spanish Succession






46. Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman achieves the first recorded European sighting of New Zealand.






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






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






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






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







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