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17th Century Timeline

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1. Polish-Ottoman War.






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






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






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






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






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






7. Dutch EastIndia Company founded. Its success contributes to the Dutch Golden Age.






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9. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






10. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






11. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






12. Polish-Ottoman War.






13. Battle of N






14. The Great Plague of London.






15. 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.'






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






17. 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.






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






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






20. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






21. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






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






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






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






25. La Salle explores the length of the Mississippi River and claims Louisiana for France.






26. The Treaty of Zurawno brings Polish-Ottoman hostilities to a halt.






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






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






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






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






32. William ascends to the throne over England - Scotland - and Ireland.






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






34. The Siege of Derry.






35. The Deluge wars leave Polish






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






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






38. The last remaining Moriscos (Moors who had nominally converted to Christianity) in Spain are expelled.






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






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






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






43. Battle of Kinsale - one of the most important battles in Irish history - fought.






44. The Second Anglo-Dutch War fought between England and the United Provinces.






45. Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before theInquisition.






46. Aurochs go extinct.






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






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






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






50. 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