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17th Century Timeline

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1. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






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






3. Beginning of English Civil War - conflict will end in 1651 with the execution of King Charles I - abolishment of the monarchy and the establishment of the supremacy of Parliament over the king.






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






5. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






6. Battle of Kinsale - one of the most important battles in Irish history - fought.






7. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






8. The Russian famine of 1601






9. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






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






11. The Defenestration of Prague






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






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






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






15. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






16. The Deluge wars leave Polish






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






18. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






19. Torture is outlawed in England.






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






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






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






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






24. 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.






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






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






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






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






29. Franco-Dutch War.






30. Ottoman campaign to help the Ukrainian Cossacks. John Sobieski defeats the Ottomans at the second battle of Khotyn (1673).






31. 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






32. The Great Turkish War halts the Ottoman Empire's expansion into Europe.






33. Mary II of England dies






34. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






35. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






36. The last remaining Moriscos (Moors who had nominally converted to Christianity) in Spain are expelled.






37. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






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






39. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






40. Sultan Mehmed IV - advised by Kara Mustafa - decides to disregard the existing peace treaty with Leopold I - due to expire in 1684.






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






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






43. The Long War between the Ottoman Empire and Austria is ended with the Peace of Zsitvatorok - Austria abandons Transylvania.






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






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






46. Ottoman war with Venice. The Ottomans invade Crete and capture Canea.






47. Sultan Mehmed IV - advised by Kara Mustafa - decides to disregard the existing peace treaty with Leopold I - due to expire in 1684.






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






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