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17th Century Timeline

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1. The Ottomans capture Crete.






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






3. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






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






5. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






6. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






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






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






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






10. Lithuanian Civil War






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






12. Fronde civil war in France.






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






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






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






16. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






25. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






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






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






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






29. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






30. The Treaty of Westminster ends the war between England and the Republic of the United Provinces.






31. 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.






32. Pedro de Peralta - governor of New Mexico - establishes the settlement of Santa Fe.






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






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






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






36. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






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






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






39. 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.






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






41. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






42. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






43. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






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






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






46. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






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






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






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






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