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17th Century Timeline

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1. 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.






2. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






12. The Ottomans capture Crete.






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






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






15. The fortresses of Veszpr






16. The Irish Rebellion.






17. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






18. Lynching of Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis de Witt in the Hague






19. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






20. Franco-Dutch War.






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






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






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






24. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






25. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






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






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






28. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






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






30. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






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






32. The fortresses of Veszpr






33. Flight of the Earls (the fleeing of most of the native Gaelic aristocracy) occurs from County Donegal in the west of Ulster in Ireland.






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






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






36. Lithuanian Civil War






37. The Netherlands and Spain agree to a Twelve Years' Truce in the Eighty Years' War.






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






39. The Defenestration of Prague






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






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






42. 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.'






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






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






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






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






47. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






48. Aurochs go extinct.






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






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