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17th Century Timeline

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1. Battle of N






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






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






4. King Charles was compelled to summon Parliament due to the revolt of the Scots.






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






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






7. Mary II of England dies






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






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






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






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






12. Lynching of Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis de Witt in the Hague






13. The Great Plague of London.






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






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






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






17. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






18. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






19. Famine in Finland wipes out almost a third of the population.






20. King Charles was compelled to summon Parliament due to the revolt of the Scots.






21. The Deluge wars leave Polish






22. Emperor Ferdinand II defeats the Bohemian rebels in the Battle of White Mountain.






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






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






25. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






26. Wars of the Three Kingdoms - civil wars throughout Scotland - Ireland - and England.






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






28. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






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






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






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






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






33. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






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






35. The Siege of Derry.






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






37. The Portuguese Restoration War led to the end of the Iberian Union.






38. Battle of Kinsale - one of the most important battles in Irish history - fought.






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






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






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






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






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






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






45. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






46. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






47. Lynching of Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis de Witt in the Hague






48. Fronde civil war in France.






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






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