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17th Century Timeline

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






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






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






4. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






5. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






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






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






8. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






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






10. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






11. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






12. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






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






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






15. Aurochs go extinct.






16. Famine in France kills 2 million.






17. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






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






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






20. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






21. Polish






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






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






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






25. New Amsterdam founded by the Dutch WestIndia Company in North America.






26. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






27. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






28. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






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






30. After modernizing his army - Abbas I expands the Persian Empire by capturing territory from the Ottomans and the Portuguese.






31. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






32. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






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






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






35. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






36. Emperor Ferdinand II defeats the Bohemian rebels in the Battle of White Mountain.






37. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






38. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






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






40. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






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






42. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






43. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






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






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






46. The Bohemian Revolt precipitates the Thirty Years' War which devastates Europe in the years 1618






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






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






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






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