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17th Century Timeline

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






2. The Great Fire of London.






3. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






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






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






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






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






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






9. The Great Plague of Seville.






10. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






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






12. Battle of L






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






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






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






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






17. The Brownist Pilgrims arrive in the Mayflower at Cape Cod






18. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






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






20. St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican completed.






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






22. Famine in France kills 2 million.






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






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






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






26. The Ottomans capture Crete.






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






28. Thomas Savery demonstrates his first steam engine to the Royal Society.






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






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






31. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






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






33. Lithuanian Civil War






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






35. Torture is outlawed in England.






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






37. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






38. Seven-year-old Mehmed IV becomes sultan.






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






40. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






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






42. 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






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






44. The Irish Rebellion.






45. Polish






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






47. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






48. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






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






50. Elizabeth I of England dies and is succeeded by her cousin King James VI of Scotland - uniting the crowns of Scotland and England.







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