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17th Century Timeline

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1. The earliest known first-class cricket match took place in Sussex.






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






3. The Great Plague of London.






4. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






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






6. 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.






7. The Defenestration of Prague






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






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






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






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






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






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






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16. France takes full political and military control over its colonial possessions in New France.






17. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






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. The Battle of Chocim - Poles and Cossacks under Jan Karol Chodkiewicz defeat the Ottomans.






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






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






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23. The Great Plague of Seville.






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






25. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






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27. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






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






29. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






30. The Ottomans capture Crete.






31. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






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






33. Famine in France kills 2 million.






34. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






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






36. The Treaty of Zurawno brings Polish-Ottoman hostilities to a halt.






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






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






39. After his father Shah Jahan completes the Taj Mahal - his son Aurangzeb deposes him as ruler of the Mughal Empire.






40. The Defenestration of Prague






41. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






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






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






44. Tokugawa Ieyasu seizes control of Japan and establishes the Tokugawa Shogunate - beginning the Edo period that lasts until 1869.






45. After his father Shah Jahan completes the Taj Mahal - his son Aurangzeb deposes him as ruler of the Mughal Empire.






46. The Deluge wars leave Polish






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






48. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






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






50. The earliest known first-class cricket match took place in Sussex.