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17th Century Timeline

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1. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






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






3. Mount Vesuvius erupts






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






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






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






7. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






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






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






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






11. The Irish Rebellion.






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






13. Polish-Ottoman War.






14. Mary II of England dies






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






16. Fronde civil war in France.






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






19. Portugal defeats the Kongo Empire at the Battle of Mbwila.






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






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






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






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






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






25. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






26. The Deluge wars leave Polish






27. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






28. Famine in France kills 2 million.






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






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






31. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






32. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






33. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






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






35. Franco-Dutch War.






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






37. The Ottomans capture Crete.






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






39. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






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






41. The Glorious Revolution starts with the Dutch Republic invading England - England becomes a constitutional monarchy.






42. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






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






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






45. 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.






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






47. Mehmed K






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






49. Lithuanian Civil War






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