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17th Century Timeline

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






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






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






4. The Great Plague of London.






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






6. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






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






8. After modernizing his army - Abbas I expands the Persian Empire by capturing territory from the Ottomans and the Portuguese.






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






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






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






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






13. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






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






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






16. Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman achieves the first recorded European sighting of New Zealand.






17. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






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






19. Mehmed K






20. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






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






22. Disagreements between the Farnese and Barberini Pope Urban VIII escalate into the Wars of Castro and last until 1649.






23. A Habsburg council of war is held in Vienna.






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






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






26. Aurochs go extinct.






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






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






29. Mount Vesuvius erupts






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






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






32. 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.'






33. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






34. The Deluge wars leave Polish






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






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






37. 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.






38. Cape Town founded by the Dutch EastIndia Company in South Africa.






39. The Siege of Derry.






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






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






42. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






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






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






45. Franco-Dutch War.






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






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






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






49. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






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