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17th Century Timeline

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1. 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.






2. Famine in France kills 2 million.






3. The Ottomans capture Crete.






4. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






5. Mary II of England dies






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






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






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






9. Thomas Savery demonstrates his first steam engine to the Royal Society.






10. The Second Anglo-Dutch War fought between England and the United Provinces.






11. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






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






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






14. The Great Plague of Seville.






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






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






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






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






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






20. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






21. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






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






24. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






25. 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.






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






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






28. Siamese revolution of 1688 ousted French influence and virtually severed all ties with the West until the 19th century.






29. Franco-Dutch War.






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






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






32. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






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






34. The Siege of Derry.






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






36. China conquers the Kingdom of Tungning and annexes Taiwan.






37. The Deluge wars leave Polish






38. 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






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






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






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






42. The Russian famine of 1601






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






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






45. The Irish Rebellion.






46. Shimabara Rebellion of Japanese Christians - ronin and peasants against Edo.






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






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






49. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






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