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17th Century Timeline

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






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






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






5. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






6. Battle of N






7. 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






8. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






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






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






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






12. Torture is outlawed in England.






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






14. Mary II of England dies






15. Polish-Ottoman War.






16. Battle of L






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






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






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






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






21. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






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






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






24. The Great Fire of London.






25. The Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth army defeats combined Russian- Swedish forces at the Battle of Klushino and conquers Moscow.






26. The Great Plague of London.






27. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






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






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






30. Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman achieves the first recorded European sighting of New Zealand.






31. Franco-Dutch War.






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






33. 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.






34. Battle of N






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






36. Ottoman war with Venice. The Ottomans invade Crete and capture Canea.






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






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






39. Ren






40. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






41. Edict of Fontainebleau outlaws Protestantism in France. King Charles II dies






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






43. The fortresses of Veszpr






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






45. The Battle of St. Gotthard - Count Raimondo Montecuccoli defeats the Ottomans. The Peace of Vasvar






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






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






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






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






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