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17th Century Timeline

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1. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






2. The Great Fire of London.






3. Peace Treaty of Lisbon between Spain and Portugal recognizes Portugal as independent country.






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






5. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






6. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






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






8. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






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






10. The Defenestration of Prague






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






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






13. Franco-Dutch War.






14. France takes full political and military control over its colonial possessions in New France.






15. The Russian famine of 1601






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






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






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






19. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






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






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






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






23. The Northern Wars cement Sweden's rise as a Great Power.






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






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






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






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






28. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






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






30. 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.






31. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






32. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






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






34. The Time of Troubles in Russia ends with the establishment of the House of Romanov which rules until 1917.






35. Mehmed K






36. Mary II of England dies






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






38. The fortresses of Veszpr






39. The Ottomans capture Crete.






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






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






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






43. 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






44. Capture of Ormuz; The island of Hormuz was captured by an Anglo-Persian force from Portuguese.






45. The Brownist Pilgrims arrive in the Mayflower at Cape Cod






46. 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






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






48. Mary II of England dies






49. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






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