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17th Century Timeline

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1. Jacques Aymar-Vernay - who later reintroduced Dowsing into popular use in Europe - is born.






2. Fronde civil war in France.






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






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






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






6. 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.'






7. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






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






9. Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge founded.






10. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






11. Edict of Fontainebleau outlaws Protestantism in France. King Charles II dies






12. The Battle of Killiecrankie is fought between Jacobite and Williamite forces in Highland Perthshire






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






14. 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.






15. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






16. The Bank of England is established.






17. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






18. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






19. 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.






20. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






21. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






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






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






24. The Ottomans capture Crete.






25. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






26. Emperor Ferdinand II defeats the Bohemian rebels in the Battle of White Mountain.






27. 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






28. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






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






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






31. 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






32. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






33. The fortresses of Veszpr






34. The Great Plague of Seville.






35. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






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






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






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






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






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






41. Time of Troubles - Vasili IV becomes Tzar of Russia.






42. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






43. The Defenestration of Prague






44. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






45. Elizabeth I of England dies and is succeeded by her cousin King James VI of Scotland - uniting the crowns of Scotland and England.






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






47. Polish






48. Polish-Ottoman War.






49. The Deluge wars leave Polish






50. Naval Battle of the Downs







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