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17th Century Timeline

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1. 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.'






2. Franco-Dutch War.






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






4. Aurochs go extinct.






5. Lynching of Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis de Witt in the Hague






6. The Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth army defeats combined Russian- Swedish forces at the Battle of Klushino and conquers Moscow.






7. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






8. 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.






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






10. The Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth army defeats combined Russian- Swedish forces at the Battle of Klushino and conquers Moscow.






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






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






13. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






14. Cape Town founded by the Dutch EastIndia Company in South Africa.






15. The Irish Rebellion.






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






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






18. Elizabeth I of England dies and is succeeded by her cousin King James VI of Scotland - uniting the crowns of Scotland and England.






19. The Brownist Pilgrims arrive in the Mayflower at Cape Cod






20. Battle of N






21. Aurochs go extinct.






22. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






23. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






24. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






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






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






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






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






29. The Defenestration of Prague






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






31. The Tokugawa Shogunate institutes Sakoku- foreigners are expelled and no one is allowed to enter or leave Japan.






32. Battle of L






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






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






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






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






37. Fronde civil war in France.






38. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






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






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






41. Portugal defeats the Kongo Empire at the Battle of Mbwila.






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






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






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






45. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






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






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






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






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






50. Famine in France kills 2 million.