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17th Century Timeline

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






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






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






4. 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






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






6. Battle of L






7. Seven-year-old Mehmed IV becomes sultan.






8. Mary II of England dies






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






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






12. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






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






14. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






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






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






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






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






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






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






21. 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.






22. 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






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






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






25. Peter the Great becomes joint ruler of Russia (sole tsar in 1696).






26. The Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas - the oldest existing university in Asia - established by the Dominican Order in Manila






27. The Irish Rebellion.






28. The earliest known first-class cricket match took place in Sussex.






29. Treaty of Vienna ends anti-Habsburg uprising in Royal Hungary.






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






31. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






32. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






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






34. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






35. 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.






36. The Treaty of Nerchinsk established a border between Russia and China.






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






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






39. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






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






41. Peter the Great becomes joint ruler of Russia (sole tsar in 1696).






42. The death of Miyamoto Musashi - legendary Japanese Samurai warrior - of natural causes.






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






44. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






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






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






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






48. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






49. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






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