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17th Century Timeline

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






2. Fronde civil war in France.






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






4. The Irish Rebellion.






5. Lithuanian Civil War






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






7. The Great Plague of Seville.






8. Maffeo Barberini is elected Pope Urban VIII at the Papal conclave of 1623.






9. Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman achieves the first recorded European sighting of New Zealand.






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






11. Emperor Fasilides founds the city of Gondar - which becomes the capital of Ethiopia for the next two centuries.






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






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






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






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






16. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






17. The Battle of Vienna finishes the Ottoman Empire's hegemony in south-eastern Europe.






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






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






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






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






22. The Great Fire of London.






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






24. Torture is outlawed in England.






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






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






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






28. Polish-Ottoman War.






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






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






31. The Ottomans capture Crete.






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






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






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






35. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






36. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






37. The Bohemian Revolt precipitates the Thirty Years' War which devastates Europe in the years 1618






38. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






39. Polish






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






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






42. Mount Vesuvius erupts






43. The Grand Alliance sought to stop French expansion during the Nine Years War.






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






45. The Irish Rebellion.






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






47. The Defenestration of Prague






48. Battle of N






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






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






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