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17th Century Timeline

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1. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






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






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






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






5. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






6. Aurochs go extinct.






7. Polish-Ottoman War.






8. Bethlen Gabor - Prince of Transylvania joins Protestant Rebels.






9. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






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






11. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






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






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






14. The Portuguese Restoration War led to the end of the Iberian Union.






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






16. Jamestown - Virginia - is settled as what would become the first permanent English colony in North America.






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






18. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






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






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






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22. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






23. English Civil War ends with the Parliamentarian victory at the Battle of Worcester.






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






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






26. The Russian famine of 1601






27. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






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






29. Disagreements between the Farnese and Barberini Pope Urban VIII escalate into the Wars of Castro and last until 1649.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






42. Torture is outlawed in England.






43. The Bank of England is established.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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