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17th Century Timeline

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






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3. Seven-year-old Mehmed IV becomes sultan.






4. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






5. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






6. Battle of Kinsale - one of the most important battles in Irish history - fought.






7. Emperor Ferdinand II defeats the Bohemian rebels in the Battle of White Mountain.






8. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






9. Maffeo Barberini is elected Pope Urban VIII at the Papal conclave of 1623.






10. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






11. 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.






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






13. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






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






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






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






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






18. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






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






20. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






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






22. Jacques Aymar-Vernay - who later reintroduced Dowsing into popular use in Europe - is born.






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






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






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






26. The Irish Rebellion.






27. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






28. British troops capture New Amsterdam and rename it New York.






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






30. Mount Vesuvius erupts






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






32. Famine in France kills 2 million.






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






34. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






35. The Bank of England is established.






36. 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.






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






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






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






40. The Deluge wars leave Polish






41. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






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






43. Bethlen Gabor allies with the Ottomans and an invasion of Moldavia takes place. The Polish suffer a disaster at Cecora on the River Prut.






44. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






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






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






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48. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






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






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