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17th Century Timeline

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1. Famine in France kills 2 million.






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






3. Koxinga captures Taiwan from the Dutch and founds the Kingdom of Tungning which rules until 1683.






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






5. 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.






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






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






8. 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.






9. Aurochs go extinct.






10. The Irish Rebellion.






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






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






13. Lithuanian Civil War






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






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






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






17. Aurochs go extinct.






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






19. The Pueblo Revolt drives the Spanish out of New Mexico until 1692.






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






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






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






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






25. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






26. The Bank of England is established.






27. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






28. The Deluge wars leave Polish






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






30. 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






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






32. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






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






34. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






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






36. The Northern Wars cement Sweden's rise as a Great Power.






37. The death of Miyamoto Musashi - legendary Japanese Samurai warrior - of natural causes.






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






39. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






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






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






42. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






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






44. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






45. Torture is outlawed in England.






46. Ottoman war with Venice. The Ottomans invade Crete and capture Canea.






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






48. Jacques Aymar-Vernay - who later reintroduced Dowsing into popular use in Europe - is born.






49. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






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