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17th Century Timeline

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1. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






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






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






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






6. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






7. Aurochs go extinct.






8. Fronde civil war in France.






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






10. 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.






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






12. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






13. Thomas Savery demonstrates his first steam engine to the Royal Society.






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






15. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






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






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






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






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






20. The Treaty of Westminster ends the war between England and the Republic of the United Provinces.






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






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






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






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






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






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






27. Mehmed K






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






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






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






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






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






33. Ren






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






35. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






36. Portugal defeats the Kongo Empire at the Battle of Mbwila.






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






38. The fortresses of Veszpr






39. Mount Vesuvius erupts






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






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






42. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






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






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






45. Thomas Savery demonstrates his first steam engine to the Royal Society.






46. The Great Plague of London.






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






48. 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.






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






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







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