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17th Century Timeline

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






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






3. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






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5. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






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






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






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






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






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






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






12. Captain Willem Janszoon and his crew aboard the Dutch EastIndia Company ship Duyfken becomes the first recorded Europeans to sight and make landfall in Australia.






13. The Battle of Killiecrankie is fought between Jacobite and Williamite forces in Highland Perthshire






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






22. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






23. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






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






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






26. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






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28. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






29. 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.






30. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






31. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






32. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






33. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






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






35. La Salle explores the length of the Mississippi River and claims Louisiana for France.






36. 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.'






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






38. The Battle of Killiecrankie is fought between Jacobite and Williamite forces in Highland Perthshire






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






40. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






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






42. The Russian famine of 1601






43. Jamestown - Virginia - is settled as what would become the first permanent English colony in North America.






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






45. Naval Battle of the Downs






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






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48. Mary II of England dies






49. Sultan Mehmed IV - advised by Kara Mustafa - decides to disregard the existing peace treaty with Leopold I - due to expire in 1684.






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