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17th Century Timeline

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






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






3. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






4. Polish-Ottoman War.






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






6. Sultan Mehmed IV - advised by Kara Mustafa - decides to disregard the existing peace treaty with Leopold I - due to expire in 1684.






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






8. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






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






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






11. Aurochs go extinct.






12. Franco-Dutch War.






13. Antoni van Leeuwenhoek is the first to observe microbes with a homemade microscope - using samples he collected from his teeth scrapings - raindrops - and his own feces. He calls them 'animalcules.'






14. Mary II of England dies






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






16. The Siege of Derry.






17. 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.






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






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






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






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






22. Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge founded.






23. Franco-Dutch War.






24. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






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






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






27. Mary II of England dies






28. Mount Vesuvius erupts






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






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






31. The Battle of Vienna finishes the Ottoman Empire's hegemony in south-eastern Europe.






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






33. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






34. The Irish Rebellion.






35. Torture is outlawed in England.






36. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






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






38. Polish






39. Ren






40. Mehmed K






41. Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before theInquisition.






42. King Charles was compelled to summon Parliament due to the revolt of the Scots.






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






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






45. 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.






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






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






48. Maffeo Barberini is elected Pope Urban VIII at the Papal conclave of 1623.






49. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






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







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