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17th Century Timeline

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






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






3. Ottoman campaign to help the Ukrainian Cossacks. John Sobieski defeats the Ottomans at the second battle of Khotyn (1673).






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






5. Peace Treaty of Lisbon between Spain and Portugal recognizes Portugal as independent country.






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






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






8. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






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






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






12. Battle of L






13. Ottoman campaign to help the Ukrainian Cossacks. John Sobieski defeats the Ottomans at the second battle of Khotyn (1673).






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






15. Franco-Dutch War.






16. Koxinga captures Taiwan from the Dutch and founds the Kingdom of Tungning which rules until 1683.






17. Mount Vesuvius erupts






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






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






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






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






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






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






24. The Bank of England is established.






25. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






26. Peace Treaty of Lisbon between Spain and Portugal recognizes Portugal as independent country.






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






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






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






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






31. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






32. The Ottomans capture Crete.






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






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






36. The Manchus start invading China. Their conquest eventually topples the Ming Dynasty.






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






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






39. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






40. 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.






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






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






43. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






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






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






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






47. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Pernambuco and founds Dutch Brazil.






48. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






49. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






50. The Great Plague of Seville.