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17th Century Timeline

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






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






3. 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.'






4. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






5. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






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






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






8. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






17. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






18. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






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






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






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






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






23. Edict of Fontainebleau outlaws Protestantism in France. King Charles II dies






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






25. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






26. Lithuanian Civil War






27. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






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






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






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






31. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






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






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






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






35. The Peace of Westphalia ends the Thirty Years' War and the Eighty Years' War and marks the ends of Spain and the Holy Roman Empire as major European powers.






36. The Siege of Derry.






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






38. France takes full political and military control over its colonial possessions in New France.






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






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






41. The Irish Rebellion.






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






43. Emperor Ferdinand II defeats the Bohemian rebels in the Battle of White Mountain.






44. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






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






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






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






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






49. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






50. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.