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17th Century Timeline

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






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






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






4. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






5. The Long War between the Ottoman Empire and Austria is ended with the Peace of Zsitvatorok - Austria abandons Transylvania.






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






7. The Great Plague of Seville.






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






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






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






11. The Tokugawa Shogunate institutes Sakoku- foreigners are expelled and no one is allowed to enter or leave Japan.






12. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






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






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






15. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






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






17. The Glorious Revolution starts with the Dutch Republic invading England - England becomes a constitutional monarchy.






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






19. The Second Anglo-Dutch War fought between England and the United Provinces.






20. Naval Battle of the Downs






21. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






22. Aurochs go extinct.






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






24. Naval Battle of the Downs






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






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






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






28. The Bank of England is established.






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






30. The Treaty of Zurawno brings Polish-Ottoman hostilities to a halt.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






38. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






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






40. The Long War between the Ottoman Empire and Austria is ended with the Peace of Zsitvatorok - Austria abandons Transylvania.






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






42. The Battle of Killiecrankie is fought between Jacobite and Williamite forces in Highland Perthshire






43. The Deluge wars leave Polish






44. The Defenestration of Prague






45. The Raid on the Medway during the Second Anglo-Dutch War.






46. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






47. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






48. Fronde civil war in France.






49. Edict of Fontainebleau outlaws Protestantism in France. King Charles II dies






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