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17th Century Timeline

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






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






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






4. Emperor Ferdinand II defeats the Bohemian rebels in the Battle of White Mountain.






5. The Karposh rebellion is crushed in present-day Republic of Macedonia - Skopje is retaken by the Ottoman Turks. Karposh is killed - and the rebels are defeated. Giles Cory was pressed to death during the Salem witch trials in the 1690s






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






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






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






9. The Great Plague of Seville.






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






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






12. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






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






14. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






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






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






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






18. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






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






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






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






22. 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.






23. Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman achieves the first recorded European sighting of New Zealand.






24. The Battle of Chocim - Poles and Cossacks under Jan Karol Chodkiewicz defeat the Ottomans.






25. Bethlen Gabor allies with the Ottomans and an invasion of Moldavia takes place. The Polish suffer a disaster at Cecora on the River Prut.






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27. Battle of Kinsale - one of the most important battles in Irish history - fought.






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






29. After modernizing his army - Abbas I expands the Persian Empire by capturing territory from the Ottomans and the Portuguese.






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






31. English Civil War ends with the Parliamentarian victory at the Battle of Worcester.






32. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






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






34. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






35. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






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






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






38. The Irish Rebellion.






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






40. The fortresses of Veszpr






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






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






43. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






44. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






45. 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.






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






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






48. 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.






49. Siamese revolution of 1688 ousted French influence and virtually severed all ties with the West until the 19th century.






50. Rampjaar in the Netherlands