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17th Century Timeline

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






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






3. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






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






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






6. The Ottomans capture Crete.






7. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






8. A Habsburg council of war is held in Vienna.






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






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






11. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






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






13. The Second Anglo-Dutch War fought between England and the United Provinces.






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






15. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






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






17. Polish






18. The 1700 Cascadia earthquake (magnitude 9) occurs off the coast of the Pacific Northwest; Japan is struck by a tsunami.






19. Torture is outlawed in England.






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






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






22. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Pernambuco and founds Dutch Brazil.






23. British troops capture New Amsterdam and rename it New York.






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






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






26. The Siege of Derry.






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






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






29. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






30. Torture is outlawed in England.






31. Naval Battle of the Downs






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






33. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






40. The Irish Rebellion.






41. The Great Plague of Seville.






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






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






44. The Irish Rebellion.






45. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






46. The fortresses of Veszpr






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






48. Fronde civil war in France.






49. Famine in France kills 2 million.






50. Polish-Ottoman War.







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