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17th Century Timeline

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






2. The Deluge wars leave Polish






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






4. Polish






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






6. Bethlen Gabor allies with the Ottomans and an invasion of Moldavia takes place. The Polish suffer a disaster at Cecora on the River Prut.






7. Russia and the Ottoman Empire commence the Russo-Turkish Wars.






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






9. The Ottomans capture Crete.






10. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






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






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






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






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






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






16. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






17. Polish-Ottoman War.






18. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






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






20. The Netherlands and Spain agree to a Twelve Years' Truce in the Eighty Years' War.






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






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






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






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






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






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






27. The Brownist Pilgrims arrive in the Mayflower at Cape Cod






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






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






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






31. Famine in France kills 2 million.






32. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






33. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






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






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






36. The Glorious Revolution starts with the Dutch Republic invading England - England becomes a constitutional monarchy.






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






38. The Deluge wars leave Polish






39. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






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






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






42. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






43. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






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






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






46. Battle of L






47. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






48. Mehmed K






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






50. Mary II of England dies