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17th Century Timeline

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1. The Russian famine of 1601






2. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






3. Torture is outlawed in England.






4. Russia and the Ottoman Empire commence the Russo-Turkish Wars.






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






6. Famine in France kills 2 million.






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






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






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






10. Aurochs go extinct.






11. Ren






12. 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.






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






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






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






16. Polish






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






18. The Great Fire of London.






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






20. 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






21. Battle of N






22. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






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






24. The War of Devolution; France invades the Netherlands. The Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle (1668) brings this to a halt.






25. Battle of N






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






27. Mount Vesuvius erupts






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






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






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






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






32. Dutch EastIndia Company founded. Its success contributes to the Dutch Golden Age.






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. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






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






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






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






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






39. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






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






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






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






43. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






44. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






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






46. The War of Devolution; France invades the Netherlands. The Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle (1668) brings this to a halt.






47. Naval Battle of the Downs






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






49. 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






50. Fronde civil war in France.