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17th Century Timeline

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1. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






2. The Defenestration of Prague






3. The Bank of England is established.






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






5. The Great Fire of London.






6. The Northern Wars cement Sweden's rise as a Great Power.






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






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






9. The Great Fire of London.






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






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






12. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






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






14. Emperor Fasilides founds the city of Gondar - which becomes the capital of Ethiopia for the next two centuries.






15. The Great Plague of London.






16. 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.






17. The Great Plague of Seville.






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






19. Franco-Dutch War.






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






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






22. The Grand Alliance sought to stop French expansion during the Nine Years War.






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25. British troops capture New Amsterdam and rename it New York.






26. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






27. The 1700 Cascadia earthquake (magnitude 9) occurs off the coast of the Pacific Northwest; Japan is struck by a tsunami.






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






29. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






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






31. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






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






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






34. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






35. 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.






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






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






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






39. The Time of Troubles in Russia ends with the establishment of the House of Romanov which rules until 1917.






40. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






41. Mount Vesuvius erupts






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






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






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






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






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






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






48. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






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






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