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17th Century Timeline

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1. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






2. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






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. 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.'






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






6. Portugal defeats the Kongo Empire at the Battle of Mbwila.






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






8. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






18. The Treaty of Westminster ends the war between England and the Republic of the United Provinces.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






27. Mount Vesuvius erupts






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






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






30. The Battle of St. Gotthard - Count Raimondo Montecuccoli defeats the Ottomans. The Peace of Vasvar






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






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






33. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






41. Maffeo Barberini is elected Pope Urban VIII at the Papal conclave of 1623.






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






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






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






45. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






46. Naval Battle of the Downs






47. Polish-Ottoman War.






48. Mount Vesuvius erupts






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






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