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17th Century Timeline

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






2. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






3. Lithuanian Civil War






4. The Irish Rebellion.






5. Giovanni Battista Pamphili is elected PopeInnocent X at the Papal conclave of 1644.






6. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






7. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






8. The Brownist Pilgrims arrive in the Mayflower at Cape Cod






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






10. The Raid on the Medway during the Second Anglo-Dutch War.






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






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






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






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






15. Battle of N






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






17. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






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






19. Torture is outlawed in England.






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






21. Mount Vesuvius erupts






22. Antoni van Leeuwenhoek is the first to observe microbes with a homemade microscope - using samples he collected from his teeth scrapings - raindrops - and his own feces. He calls them 'animalcules.'






23. Jamestown massacre - Algonquian natives kill 347 English settlers outside Jamestown - Virginia (1/3 of the colony's population) and burn the Henricus settlement.






24. Battle of N






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. The last remaining Moriscos (Moors who had nominally converted to Christianity) in Spain are expelled.






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






28. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






29. The Portuguese Restoration War led to the end of the Iberian Union.






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






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






32. Lithuanian Civil War






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






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






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






36. John Evelyn's forestry book - Sylva - is published in England.






37. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






38. Mary II of England dies






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






40. The Ottomans capture Crete.






41. Cape Town founded by the Dutch EastIndia Company in South Africa.






42. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






43. English Civil War ends with the Parliamentarian victory at the Battle of Worcester.






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






45. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






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






47. The last remaining Moriscos (Moors who had nominally converted to Christianity) in Spain are expelled.






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






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






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