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17th Century Timeline

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1. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






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






3. Aurochs go extinct.






4. The Northern Wars cement Sweden's rise as a Great Power.






5. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






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






7. The Mughal Empire nearly bans the EastIndia Company in response to pirate Henry Every's capture of the Ganj-i-Sawai






8. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






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






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






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






12. Cardinal Richelieu allies with Swedish Protestant forces in the Thirty Years' War to counter Ferdinand II's expansion.






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






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






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






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






17. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






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






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






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






21. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






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






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






24. The College of William and Mary is founded in Williamsburg - Virginia by a royal charter.






25. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






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






27. The Defenestration of Prague






28. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






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






30. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






31. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






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






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






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






35. Torture is outlawed in England.






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






37. The Irish Rebellion.






38. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






39. Michael the Brave (first unificator of Romania) - voivode of Wallachia - Moldavia and Transylvania - is assassinated by the order of the Habsburg general Giorgio Basta at C






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






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






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






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






44. The Siege of Derry.






45. Polish






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






47. The Bank of England is established.






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






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






50. The Great Plague of London.