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17th Century Timeline

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2. The Russian famine of 1601






3. The Russian famine of 1601






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






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






6. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






7. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






8. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






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






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






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






12. Quebec City founded by Samuel de Champlain in New France (present-day Canada).






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






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






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






16. The Bank of England is established.






17. Quebec City founded by Samuel de Champlain in New France (present-day Canada).






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






26. The Irish Rebellion.






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






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






29. Thomas Savery demonstrates his first steam engine to the Royal Society.






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






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






32. The 1700 Cascadia earthquake (magnitude 9) occurs off the coast of the Pacific Northwest; Japan is struck by a tsunami.






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






34. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






35. The Irish Rebellion.






36. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






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






38. Emperor Ferdinand II defeats the Bohemian rebels in the Battle of White Mountain.






39. 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.'






40. Mount Vesuvius erupts






41. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






42. Mary II of England dies






43. Fronde civil war in France.






44. Polish-Ottoman War.






45. Battle of L






46. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Bahia in Brazil.






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






48. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






49. 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






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