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17th Century Timeline

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






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






3. The College of William and Mary is founded in Williamsburg - Virginia by a royal charter.






4. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






5. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






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






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






8. Franco-Dutch War.






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






10. Famine in France kills 2 million.






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






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






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






14. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






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






16. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






17. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






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






19. Mount Vesuvius erupts






20. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






21. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






22. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






23. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






24. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






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






26. Sultan Mehmed IV - advised by Kara Mustafa - decides to disregard the existing peace treaty with Leopold I - due to expire in 1684.






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






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






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






30. Russia and the Ottoman Empire commence the Russo-Turkish Wars.






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






32. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






33. Wars of the Three Kingdoms - civil wars throughout Scotland - Ireland - and England.






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






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






36. The Commonwealth of England ends and the monarchy is brought back during the English Restoration.






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






38. Aurochs go extinct.






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






40. Russia and the Ottoman Empire commence the Russo-Turkish Wars.






41. Mehmed K






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






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






44. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






45. The Siege of Derry.






46. Famine in France kills 2 million.






47. The fortresses of Veszpr






48. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






49. 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.






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