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17th Century Timeline

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






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






3. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






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






5. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






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






7. 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.






8. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






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






10. The Ottomans capture Crete.






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






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






13. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Bahia in Brazil.






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






15. Jamestown massacre - Algonquian natives kill 347 English settlers outside Jamestown - Virginia (1/3 of the colony's population) and burn the Henricus settlement.






16. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






17. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






18. Bethlen Gabor allies with the Ottomans and an invasion of Moldavia takes place. The Polish suffer a disaster at Cecora on the River Prut.






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






20. 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.






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






22. The Great Plague of London.






23. The Bank of England is established.






24. Franco-Dutch War.






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






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






27. Cardinal Richelieu allies with Swedish Protestant forces in the Thirty Years' War to counter Ferdinand II's expansion.






28. Franco-Dutch War.






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






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






31. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






32. St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican completed.






33. Aurochs go extinct.






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






35. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






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






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






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






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






40. Battle of N






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






42. The Defenestration of Prague






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






44. Famine in France kills 2 million.






45. 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






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






47. Naval Battle of the Downs






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






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






50. Mary II of England dies