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17th Century Timeline

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






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






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






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






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






6. The Irish Rebellion.






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






8. Famine in France kills 2 million.






9. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






10. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






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






12. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






13. 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.'






14. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






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






16. Jacques Aymar-Vernay - who later reintroduced Dowsing into popular use in Europe - is born.






17. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






18. 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.'






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






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






21. The earliest known first-class cricket match took place in Sussex.






22. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






23. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






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






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






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






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






28. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






29. Aurochs go extinct.






30. The Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas - the oldest existing university in Asia - established by the Dominican Order in Manila






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






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






33. The Grand Alliance sought to stop French expansion during the Nine Years War.






34. The Ottomans capture Crete.






35. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






36. Mehmed K






37. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






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






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






40. The Time of Troubles in Russia ends with the establishment of the House of Romanov which rules until 1917.






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






42. The Great Plague of Seville.






43. 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.






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






45. The Treaty of Karlowitz ends the Great Turkish War.






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






47. The Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas - the oldest existing university in Asia - established by the Dominican Order in Manila






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






49. Ren






50. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France