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17th Century Timeline

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






2. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






3. The Second Anglo-Dutch War fought between England and the United Provinces.






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






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






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






7. The Ottomans capture Crete.






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






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






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






11. Polish-Ottoman War.






12. Ottoman campaign to help the Ukrainian Cossacks. John Sobieski defeats the Ottomans at the second battle of Khotyn (1673).






13. The reign of the Kangxi Emperor of China begins.






14. The Bank of England is established.






15. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






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






17. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






18. Torture is outlawed in England.






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






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






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






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






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






24. Aurochs go extinct.






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






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






27. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






28. The Russian famine of 1601






29. The Battle of Vienna finishes the Ottoman Empire's hegemony in south-eastern Europe.






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






31. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






32. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






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






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






35. Mary II of England dies






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






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






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






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






40. Naval Battle of the Downs






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






50. Mary II of England dies