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17th Century Timeline

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1. Battle of N






2. Lithuanian Civil War






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






4. The Great Fire of London.






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






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






7. Naval Battle of the Downs






8. 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.






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






10. The Grand Alliance sought to stop French expansion during the Nine Years War.






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






12. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






13. Aurochs go extinct.






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15. Russia supplants Sweden as the dominant Baltic power after the Great Northern War.






16. 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






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






18. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






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






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






21. Emperor Fasilides expels the Catholic Patriarch Afonso Mendes and several Jesuit missionaries from Ethiopia.






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






23. As chief minister - Cardinal Richelieu centralises power in France.






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






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






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






27. Captain Willem Janszoon and his crew aboard the Dutch EastIndia Company ship Duyfken becomes the first recorded Europeans to sight and make landfall in Australia.






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






29. Famine in France kills 2 million.






30. The Battle of Vienna finishes the Ottoman Empire's hegemony in south-eastern Europe.






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32. The Irish Rebellion.






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






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






35. The Battle of Vienna finishes the Ottoman Empire's hegemony in south-eastern Europe.






36. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






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






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






39. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






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






41. The Deluge wars leave Polish






42. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






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






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






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






46. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






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






48. The Russian famine of 1601






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






50. The fortresses of Veszpr