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17th Century Timeline

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






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






4. The Great Turkish War halts the Ottoman Empire's expansion into Europe.






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






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






7. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






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






9. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






18. Mount Vesuvius erupts






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






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






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






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






23. The Great Plague of London.






24. 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






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






26. The Ottomans capture Crete.






27. Lithuanian Civil War






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






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






30. 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.






31. The Defenestration of Prague






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






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






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






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






36. The Great Fire of London.






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






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






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






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






41. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






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






43. The Irish Rebellion.






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






45. Thomas Savery demonstrates his first steam engine to the Royal Society.






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






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






48. Famine in France kills 2 million.






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






50. The last remaining Moriscos (Moors who had nominally converted to Christianity) in Spain are expelled.







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