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17th Century Timeline

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1. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






2. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






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






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






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






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






7. Torture is outlawed in England.






8. The Great Plague of Seville.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






16. Flight of the Earls (the fleeing of most of the native Gaelic aristocracy) occurs from County Donegal in the west of Ulster in Ireland.






17. Battle of N






18. Aurochs go extinct.






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






20. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






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






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






23. 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.






24. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






25. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






26. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






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






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






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






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






31. The Battle of Chocim - Poles and Cossacks under Jan Karol Chodkiewicz defeat the Ottomans.






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






33. Beginning of English Civil War - conflict will end in 1651 with the execution of King Charles I - abolishment of the monarchy and the establishment of the supremacy of Parliament over the king.






34. 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






35. The Treaty of Nerchinsk established a border between Russia and China.






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. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






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






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






40. The Bank of England is established.






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






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






43. Battle of N






44. Peter the Great becomes joint ruler of Russia (sole tsar in 1696).






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






46. The Irish Rebellion.






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






48. 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.'






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






50. Franco-Dutch War.