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17th Century Timeline

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1. The Great Plague of London.






2. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






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






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5. The Commonwealth of England ends and the monarchy is brought back during the English Restoration.






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






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






8. Russia and the Ottoman Empire commence the Russo-Turkish Wars.






9. Jamestown massacre - Algonquian natives kill 347 English settlers outside Jamestown - Virginia (1/3 of the colony's population) and burn the Henricus settlement.






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






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






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






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






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






16. The Bank of England is established.






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






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






19. Aurochs go extinct.






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






21. Fronde civil war in France.






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






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






25. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






26. The Bank of England is established.






27. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






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






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






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31. The Commonwealth of England ends and the monarchy is brought back during the English Restoration.






32. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






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






34. Koxinga captures Taiwan from the Dutch and founds the Kingdom of Tungning which rules until 1683.






35. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






36. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






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






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






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






40. Lithuanian Civil War






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






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






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44. The Great Plague of Seville.






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






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






47. 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.






48. New Amsterdam founded by the Dutch WestIndia Company in North America.






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