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17th Century Timeline

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






2. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






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






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






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






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






7. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






8. Shimabara Rebellion of Japanese Christians - ronin and peasants against Edo.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






16. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






17. Peace Treaty of Lisbon between Spain and Portugal recognizes Portugal as independent country.






18. The Manchus start invading China. Their conquest eventually topples the Ming Dynasty.






19. Aurochs go extinct.






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






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






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






24. Capture of Ormuz; The island of Hormuz was captured by an Anglo-Persian force from Portuguese.






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






26. The Glorious Revolution starts with the Dutch Republic invading England - England becomes a constitutional monarchy.






27. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






28. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






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






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






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






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






33. The Ottomans capture Crete.






34. The Great Fire of London.






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






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






37. Cape Town founded by the Dutch EastIndia Company in South Africa.






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






39. 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






40. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






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






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






43. 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.'






44. Dutch EastIndia Company founded. Its success contributes to the Dutch Golden Age.






45. The Siege of Derry.






46. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






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






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






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