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17th Century Timeline

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1. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






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






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






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






5. Polish






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






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






8. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






9. Aurochs go extinct.






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






11. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






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






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






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






15. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






16. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






17. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






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






19. 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.'






20. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






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






22. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






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






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






25. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






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






27. The Ottomans capture Crete.






28. 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






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






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






31. The Siege of Derry.






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






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






34. France takes full political and military control over its colonial possessions in New France.






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






36. The Karposh rebellion is crushed in present-day Republic of Macedonia - Skopje is retaken by the Ottoman Turks. Karposh is killed - and the rebels are defeated. Giles Cory was pressed to death during the Salem witch trials in the 1690s






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






38. Tokugawa Ieyasu seizes control of Japan and establishes the Tokugawa Shogunate - beginning the Edo period that lasts until 1869.






39. The Great Fire of London.






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






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






42. 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.






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






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






45. Franco-Dutch War.






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






47. Portugal defeats the Kongo Empire at the Battle of Mbwila.






48. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






49. The Russian famine of 1601






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