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17th Century Timeline

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






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






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






4. Emperor Fasilides founds the city of Gondar - which becomes the capital of Ethiopia for the next two centuries.






5. Battle of L






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






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






8. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






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






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






11. Siamese revolution of 1688 ousted French influence and virtually severed all ties with the West until the 19th century.






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






13. Polish-Ottoman War.






14. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






15. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






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






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






18. Flight of the Earls (the fleeing of most of the native Gaelic aristocracy) occurs from County Donegal in the west of Ulster in Ireland.






19. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






20. 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






21. 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.






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






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






24. Lithuanian Civil War






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






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






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






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






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






30. Emperor Fasilides founds the city of Gondar - which becomes the capital of Ethiopia for the next two centuries.






31. The Deluge wars leave Polish






32. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






33. Torture is outlawed in England.






34. Naval Battle of the Downs






35. The Russian famine of 1601






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






37. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






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






39. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






40. Flight of the Earls (the fleeing of most of the native Gaelic aristocracy) occurs from County Donegal in the west of Ulster in Ireland.






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






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






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






44. Famine in France kills 2 million.






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






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






47. Mehmed K






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






49. John Evelyn's forestry book - Sylva - is published in England.






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