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17th Century Timeline

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1. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






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






3. 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.






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






5. The Great Plague of Seville.






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






7. Polish-Ottoman War.






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






9. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






15. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






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






17. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






18. Polish






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






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






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






22. The Battle of St. Gotthard - Count Raimondo Montecuccoli defeats the Ottomans. The Peace of Vasvar






23. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






24. The Russian famine of 1601






25. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






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






27. Mehmed K






28. France takes full political and military control over its colonial possessions in New France.






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






30. Wars of the Three Kingdoms - civil wars throughout Scotland - Ireland - and England.






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






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






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






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






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






36. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






37. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






38. The Bohemian Revolt precipitates the Thirty Years' War which devastates Europe in the years 1618






39. The fortresses of Veszpr






40. The Great Plague of Seville.






41. Wars of the Three Kingdoms - civil wars throughout Scotland - Ireland - and England.






42. Famine in France kills 2 million.






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






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






45. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






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






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






48. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






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






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







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