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17th Century Timeline

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






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






3. The Great Plague of Seville.






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






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






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






7. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






8. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






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






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






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






12. Franco-Dutch War.






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






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






15. The Ottomans capture Crete.






16. The Deluge wars leave Polish






17. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






18. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






19. Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge founded.






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






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






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






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






24. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






25. Torture is outlawed in England.






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






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






28. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






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






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






31. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






32. 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.'






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






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






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






36. 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






37. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






38. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






39. The Irish Rebellion.






40. Dutch EastIndia Company founded. Its success contributes to the Dutch Golden Age.






41. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






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






43. The earliest known first-class cricket match took place in Sussex.






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






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






46. Fronde civil war in France.






47. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






48. 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






49. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






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