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17th Century Timeline

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1. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






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






3. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






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






5. The Deluge wars leave Polish






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






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






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






9. The Great Plague of Seville.






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






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






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






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






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






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






16. Battle of N






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






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






19. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






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






21. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






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






23. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






24. Polish






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






26. Naval Battle of the Downs






27. The Treaty of Nerchinsk established a border between Russia and China.






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






29. Polish






30. The Russian famine of 1601






31. The Second Anglo-Dutch War fought between England and the United Provinces.






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






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






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






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






36. The last remaining Moriscos (Moors who had nominally converted to Christianity) in Spain are expelled.






37. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






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






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






40. Louis XIV accepts the Spanish crown on behalf of his grandson Philip of Anjou - triggering the War of the Spanish Succession






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






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






43. The Defenestration of Prague






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






45. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






46. The Pueblo Revolt drives the Spanish out of New Mexico until 1692.






47. Mary II of England dies






48. The Siege of Derry.






49. The Mughal Empire nearly bans the EastIndia Company in response to pirate Henry Every's capture of the Ganj-i-Sawai






50. Fronde civil war in France.