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17th Century Timeline

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






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






3. The Great Plague of Seville.






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






5. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






6. 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.






7. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






8. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






9. Fronde civil war in France.






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






11. 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.'






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






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14. Mount Vesuvius erupts






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






16. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






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






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






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






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






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






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






23. The fortresses of Veszpr






24. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






25. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






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






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






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






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






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32. Beginning of English Civil War - conflict will end in 1651 with the execution of King Charles I - abolishment of the monarchy and the establishment of the supremacy of Parliament over the king.






33. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






34. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






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






36. The Great Fire of London.






37. Sultan Mehmed IV - advised by Kara Mustafa - decides to disregard the existing peace treaty with Leopold I - due to expire in 1684.






38. Lithuanian Civil War






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






40. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






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






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






43. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






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






45. 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.






46. The Hudson's Bay Company is founded in Canada.






47. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






48. John Evelyn's forestry book - Sylva - is published in England.






49. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






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