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17th Century Timeline

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






2. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






3. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






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






5. Famine in Finland wipes out almost a third of the population.






6. The fortresses of Veszpr






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






8. The Siege of Derry.






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






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11. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






12. The reign of the Kangxi Emperor of China begins.






13. 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






14. 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.'






15. Lithuanian Civil War






16. Franco-Dutch War.






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






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






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






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






22. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






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






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






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






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






27. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






28. The Treaty of Karlowitz ends the Great Turkish War.






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






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






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






32. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






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






34. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






35. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






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






37. The Great Plague of Seville.






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






39. Jacques Aymar-Vernay - who later reintroduced Dowsing into popular use in Europe - is born.






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






41. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






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






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






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






45. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






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






47. Giovanni Battista Pamphili is elected PopeInnocent X at the Papal conclave of 1644.






48. Mary II of England dies






49. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






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