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17th Century Timeline

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






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






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5. 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.






6. The Bank of England is established.






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






8. Torture is outlawed in England.






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






10. The Great Plague of London.






11. The Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas - the oldest existing university in Asia - established by the Dominican Order in Manila






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






13. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






14. Battle of L






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






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






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






19. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






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






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






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






23. Battle of L






24. Treaty of Vienna ends anti-Habsburg uprising in Royal Hungary.






25. Polish-Ottoman War.






26. The Great Fire of London.






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






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






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






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






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






32. The Great Plague of London.






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






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






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






36. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






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






38. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






39. 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.






40. Franco-Dutch War.






41. Cape Town founded by the Dutch EastIndia Company in South Africa.






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






43. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






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






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






46. Cape Town founded by the Dutch EastIndia Company in South Africa.






47. John Locke publishes his first 'Letter Concerning Toleration'.






48. The Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas - the oldest existing university in Asia - established by the Dominican Order in Manila






49. Lithuanian Civil War






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