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17th Century Timeline

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1. The Bank of England is established.






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






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






4. 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.






5. Torture is outlawed in England.






6. Emperor Fasilides expels the Catholic Patriarch Afonso Mendes and several Jesuit missionaries from Ethiopia.






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






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






10. Famine in France kills 2 million.






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






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






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






14. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






15. The Karposh rebellion is crushed in present-day Republic of Macedonia - Skopje is retaken by the Ottoman Turks. Karposh is killed - and the rebels are defeated. Giles Cory was pressed to death during the Salem witch trials in the 1690s






16. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






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






18. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






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






20. John Locke publishes his first 'Letter Concerning Toleration'.






21. 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






22. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






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






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






25. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






26. 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.






27. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






28. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






29. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






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






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






32. Mary II of England dies






33. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






34. Lithuanian Civil War






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






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






37. Peter the Great becomes joint ruler of Russia (sole tsar in 1696).






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






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






40. Bethlen Gabor allies with the Ottomans and an invasion of Moldavia takes place. The Polish suffer a disaster at Cecora on the River Prut.






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






42. Fronde civil war in France.






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






45. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






46. The Ottomans capture Crete from the Venetians after the Siege of Candia.






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






48. Koxinga captures Taiwan from the Dutch and founds the Kingdom of Tungning which rules until 1683.






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






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