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17th Century Timeline

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1. 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.






2. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






3. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






4. The Great Plague of Seville.






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






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






7. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






8. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






9. The Battle of St. Gotthard - Count Raimondo Montecuccoli defeats the Ottomans. The Peace of Vasvar






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






11. William ascends to the throne over England - Scotland - and Ireland.






12. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






13. Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before theInquisition.






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






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






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






17. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






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






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






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






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






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






23. Battle of N






24. The Battle of Chocim - Poles and Cossacks under Jan Karol Chodkiewicz defeat the Ottomans.






25. 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.






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






27. The Ottomans capture Crete.






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






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






30. Giovanni Battista Pamphili is elected PopeInnocent X at the Papal conclave of 1644.






31. The Deluge wars leave Polish






32. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






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






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






35. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






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






37. Beginning of English Civil War - conflict will end in 1651 with the execution of King Charles I - abolishment of the monarchy and the establishment of the supremacy of Parliament over the king.






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






39. Elizabeth I of England dies and is succeeded by her cousin King James VI of Scotland - uniting the crowns of Scotland and England.






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






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






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






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






44. The Irish Rebellion.






45. The Battle of Killiecrankie is fought between Jacobite and Williamite forces in Highland Perthshire






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






47. Mary II of England dies






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






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






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