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17th Century Timeline

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






2. 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.'






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






4. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






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






6. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






7. The Hudson's Bay Company is founded in Canada.






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






9. 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.






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






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






12. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






21. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






22. The death of Miyamoto Musashi - legendary Japanese Samurai warrior - of natural causes.






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






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






25. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






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






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






28. The Bank of England is established.






29. Torture is outlawed in England.






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






31. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






32. Aurochs go extinct.






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






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






35. Naval Battle of the Downs






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






37. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






38. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






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






40. The fortresses of Veszpr






41. The Battle of Chocim - Poles and Cossacks under Jan Karol Chodkiewicz defeat the Ottomans.






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






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






44. La Salle explores the length of the Mississippi River and claims Louisiana for France.






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






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






47. St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican completed.






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






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






50. Lithuanian Civil War