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17th Century Timeline

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






2. Mary II of England dies






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






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






5. William ascends to the throne over England - Scotland - and Ireland.






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






7. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






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






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






10. English Civil War ends with the Parliamentarian victory at the Battle of Worcester.






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






12. Russia supplants Sweden as the dominant Baltic power after the Great Northern War.






13. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






14. Emperor Ferdinand II defeats the Bohemian rebels in the Battle of White Mountain.






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






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






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






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






19. Aurochs go extinct.






20. Dutch EastIndia Company founded. Its success contributes to the Dutch Golden Age.






21. Franco-Dutch War.






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






23. Lynching of Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis de Witt in the Hague






24. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






25. Fronde civil war in France.






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






27. The Siege of Derry.






28. Franco-Dutch War.






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






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






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






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






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






34. Fronde civil war in France.






35. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






36. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






37. The Northern Wars cement Sweden's rise as a Great Power.






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






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






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






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






42. 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.






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






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






45. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






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






47. William ascends to the throne over England - Scotland - and Ireland.






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






49. Jamestown - Virginia - is settled as what would become the first permanent English colony in North America.






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