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17th Century Timeline

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1. Time of Troubles - Vasili IV becomes Tzar of Russia.






2. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






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






4. Torture is outlawed in England.






5. Pedro de Peralta - governor of New Mexico - establishes the settlement of Santa Fe.






6. 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






7. The Great Fire of London.






8. The Ottomans capture Crete from the Venetians after the Siege of Candia.






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






10. Fronde civil war in France.






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






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






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






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






15. 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






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






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






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






19. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






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






21. The Great Plague of Seville.






22. The Battle of Killiecrankie is fought between Jacobite and Williamite forces in Highland Perthshire






23. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Pernambuco and founds Dutch Brazil.






24. The Great Plague of Seville.






25. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






26. The Siege of Derry.






27. Mount Vesuvius erupts






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






29. Polish






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






31. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






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






33. The fortresses of Veszpr






34. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






35. The Hudson's Bay Company is founded in Canada.






36. Pedro de Peralta - governor of New Mexico - establishes the settlement of Santa Fe.






37. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






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






39. 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






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






41. 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.






42. The fortresses of Veszpr






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






44. Mehmed K






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






46. 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.'






47. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






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






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






50. The Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth army defeats combined Russian- Swedish forces at the Battle of Klushino and conquers Moscow.