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17th Century Timeline

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1. The Siege of Derry.






2. King Charles was compelled to summon Parliament due to the revolt of the Scots.






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






4. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






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






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






7. Famine in Finland wipes out almost a third of the population.






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






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






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






11. Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman achieves the first recorded European sighting of New Zealand.






12. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






13. China conquers the Kingdom of Tungning and annexes Taiwan.






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






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






16. China conquers the Kingdom of Tungning and annexes Taiwan.






17. Battle of L






18. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






19. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






20. Lithuanian Civil War






21. 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






22. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






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






24. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






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






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






27. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






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






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






30. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






31. The Defenestration of Prague






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






33. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






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






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






36. 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.






37. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






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






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






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






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






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






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






44. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






45. Naval Battle of the Downs






46. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






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






48. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






49. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






50. The Ottomans capture Crete.