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17th Century Timeline

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






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






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






4. Battle of L






5. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






6. Mary II of England dies






7. La Salle explores the length of the Mississippi River and claims Louisiana for France.






8. Ren






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






10. Naval Battle of the Downs






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






12. Famine in France kills 2 million.






13. Franco-Dutch War.






14. Aurochs go extinct.






15. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






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






17. Battle of L






18. Fronde civil war in France.






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






20. Jamestown - Virginia - is settled as what would become the first permanent English colony in North America.






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






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






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






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






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






26. Polish






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






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






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






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






31. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






40. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






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






42. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






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






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






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






46. The Bank of England is established.






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






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






49. Mount Vesuvius erupts






50. Battle of N