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17th Century Timeline

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






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






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






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






5. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






6. Famine in France kills 2 million.






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






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






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






10. Famine in Finland wipes out almost a third of the population.






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






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






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






14. The Russian famine of 1601






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






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






17. The Bank of England is established.






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






19. The reign of the Kangxi Emperor of China begins.






20. Mehmed K






21. The Defenestration of Prague






22. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






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






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






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






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






27. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






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






29. The Russian famine of 1601






30. Franco-Dutch War.






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






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






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






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






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






36. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






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






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






39. Famine in Finland wipes out almost a third of the population.






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






41. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






42. Fronde civil war in France.






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






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






45. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






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






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






48. The Defenestration of Prague






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






50. The Northern Wars cement Sweden's rise as a Great Power.