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17th Century Timeline

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1. The Siege of Derry.






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






3. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






4. The Defenestration of Prague






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






6. The Portuguese Restoration War led to the end of the Iberian Union.






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






8. The Great Plague of Seville.






9. Jamestown - Virginia - is settled as what would become the first permanent English colony in North America.






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






11. The Bank of England is established.






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






13. The Defenestration of Prague






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






15. Cardinal Richelieu allies with Swedish Protestant forces in the Thirty Years' War to counter Ferdinand II's expansion.






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






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






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






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






20. Koxinga captures Taiwan from the Dutch and founds the Kingdom of Tungning which rules until 1683.






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






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






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






24. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






25. Franco-Dutch War.






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






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






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






29. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






30. Emperor Fasilides founds the city of Gondar - which becomes the capital of Ethiopia for the next two centuries.






31. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






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






33. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Pernambuco and founds Dutch Brazil.






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






35. Emperor Fasilides founds the city of Gondar - which becomes the capital of Ethiopia for the next two centuries.






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






37. 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






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






39. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






40. The Glorious Revolution starts with the Dutch Republic invading England - England becomes a constitutional monarchy.






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






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






43. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






44. New Amsterdam founded by the Dutch WestIndia Company in North America.






45. Polish






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






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






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






49. Battle of N






50. Mehmed K






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