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17th Century Timeline

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1. The Siege of Derry.






2. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






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






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






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






6. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






7. John Locke publishes his first 'Letter Concerning Toleration'.






8. New Amsterdam founded by the Dutch WestIndia Company in North America.






9. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






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






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






12. The Russian famine of 1601






13. The Mughal Empire nearly bans the EastIndia Company in response to pirate Henry Every's capture of the Ganj-i-Sawai






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






15. After modernizing his army - Abbas I expands the Persian Empire by capturing territory from the Ottomans and the Portuguese.






16. The Ottomans capture Crete.






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






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






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






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






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






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






23. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






24. The Defenestration of Prague






25. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






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






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






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






29. The Ottomans capture Crete.






30. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






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32. 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






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






34. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






35. The Commonwealth of England ends and the monarchy is brought back during the English Restoration.






36. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






37. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






38. Franco-Dutch War.






39. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






40. Michael the Brave (first unificator of Romania) - voivode of Wallachia - Moldavia and Transylvania - is assassinated by the order of the Habsburg general Giorgio Basta at C






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






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






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






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






45. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






46. Torture is outlawed in England.






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






48. Mary II of England dies






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






50. Mount Vesuvius erupts