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17th Century Timeline

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






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






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






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






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






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






7. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






8. The Commonwealth of England ends and the monarchy is brought back during the English Restoration.






9. Mary II of England dies






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






11. Fronde civil war in France.






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






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






14. After his father Shah Jahan completes the Taj Mahal - his son Aurangzeb deposes him as ruler of the Mughal Empire.






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






16. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






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






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






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






20. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






21. The Manchus start invading China. Their conquest eventually topples the Ming Dynasty.






22. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






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






24. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






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






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






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






28. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






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






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






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






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






33. 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.






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






35. The Deluge wars leave Polish






36. Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before theInquisition.






37. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






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






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






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






41. 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






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






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






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






45. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






46. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






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






48. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






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






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







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