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17th Century Timeline

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






2. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






3. A Habsburg council of war is held in Vienna.






4. Fronde civil war in France.






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






6. The fortresses of Veszpr






7. Battle of N






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






9. The Great Fire of London.






10. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






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






12. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






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






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






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






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






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






18. 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.






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






20. 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.






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






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






23. The Irish Rebellion.






24. The Grand Alliance sought to stop French expansion during the Nine Years War.






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






26. The Hudson's Bay Company is founded in Canada.






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






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






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






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






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






32. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






33. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






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






35. The Irish Rebellion.






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






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






38. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






39. A Habsburg council of war is held in Vienna.






40. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






41. The Ottomans capture Crete from the Venetians after the Siege of Candia.






42. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






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






44. John Evelyn's forestry book - Sylva - is published in England.






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






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






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






48. The Long War between the Ottoman Empire and Austria is ended with the Peace of Zsitvatorok - Austria abandons Transylvania.






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






50. Lithuanian Civil War