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17th Century Timeline

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






2. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






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






4. Battle of N






5. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






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






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






8. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






9. Mehmed K






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






11. The Time of Troubles in Russia ends with the establishment of the House of Romanov which rules until 1917.






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






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






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






15. 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.






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






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






18. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






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






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






21. The Deluge wars leave Polish






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






23. Naval Battle of the Downs






24. British troops capture New Amsterdam and rename it New York.






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






26. Lynching of Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis de Witt in the Hague






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






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






29. The Peace of Westphalia ends the Thirty Years' War and the Eighty Years' War and marks the ends of Spain and the Holy Roman Empire as major European powers.






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






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






32. The Bank of England is established.






33. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






34. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






35. King Charles was compelled to summon Parliament due to the revolt of the Scots.






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






37. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






38. Lynching of Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis de Witt in the Hague






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






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






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






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






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






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






45. The Glorious Revolution starts with the Dutch Republic invading England - England becomes a constitutional monarchy.






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






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






48. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






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






50. China conquers the Kingdom of Tungning and annexes Taiwan.