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17th Century Timeline

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






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






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






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






5. Aurochs go extinct.






6. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






7. The Great Plague of Seville.






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






9. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






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






11. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






12. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






13. The Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth army defeats combined Russian- Swedish forces at the Battle of Klushino and conquers Moscow.






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






15. The Treaty of Nerchinsk established a border between Russia and China.






16. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






17. Cardinal Richelieu lays siege to Protestant La Rochelle which eventually capitulates.






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






19. Elizabeth I of England dies and is succeeded by her cousin King James VI of Scotland - uniting the crowns of Scotland and England.






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






21. The Great Fire of London.






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






23. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






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






25. The fortresses of Veszpr






26. The death of Miyamoto Musashi - legendary Japanese Samurai warrior - of natural causes.






27. Lithuanian Civil War






28. Mary II of England dies






29. Treaty of Vienna ends anti-Habsburg uprising in Royal Hungary.






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






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






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






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






34. Mount Vesuvius erupts






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






36. The Great Turkish War halts the Ottoman Empire's expansion into Europe.






37. 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.






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






39. The Treaty of Nerchinsk established a border between Russia and China.






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






41. The Bank of England is established.






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






43. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






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






45. Polish






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






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






48. The College of William and Mary is founded in Williamsburg - Virginia by a royal charter.






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






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