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17th Century Timeline

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1. Famine in France kills 2 million.






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






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






4. The Ottomans capture Crete.






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






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






7. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






8. Mount Vesuvius erupts






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






16. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






17. Treaty of Vienna ends anti-Habsburg uprising in Royal Hungary.






18. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






19. 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






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






21. Mary II of England dies






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






23. The Manchu conquer China ending the Ming Dynasty. The subsequent Qing Dynasty rules until 1912.






24. The Irish Rebellion.






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






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






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






28. The Treaty of Karlowitz ends the Great Turkish War.






29. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






30. Seven-year-old Mehmed IV becomes sultan.






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






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






33. The Russian famine of 1601






34. Mehmed K






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






36. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






37. The Manchus start invading China. Their conquest eventually topples the Ming Dynasty.






38. Polish-Ottoman War.






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






40. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






41. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






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






43. Mount Vesuvius erupts






44. The Great Plague of Seville.






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






46. Beginning of English Civil War - conflict will end in 1651 with the execution of King Charles I - abolishment of the monarchy and the establishment of the supremacy of Parliament over the king.






47. The fortresses of Veszpr






48. Lithuanian Civil War






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






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