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17th Century Timeline

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






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






3. Ren






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






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






6. Mount Vesuvius erupts






7. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






8. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






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






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






11. The Deluge wars leave Polish






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






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






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






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






16. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






30. Fronde civil war in France.






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






32. The Siege of Derry.






33. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






34. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






35. The reign of the Kangxi Emperor of China begins.






36. Famine in France kills 2 million.






37. The College of William and Mary is founded in Williamsburg - Virginia by a royal charter.






38. New Amsterdam founded by the Dutch WestIndia Company in North America.






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






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






41. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






42. Aurochs go extinct.






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






44. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






45. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






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






47. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






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






49. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






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