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17th Century Timeline

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1. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






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






3. Antoni van Leeuwenhoek is the first to observe microbes with a homemade microscope - using samples he collected from his teeth scrapings - raindrops - and his own feces. He calls them 'animalcules.'






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






5. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






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






7. The Great Turkish War halts the Ottoman Empire's expansion into Europe.






8. Fronde civil war in France.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






17. Naval Battle of the Downs






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






19. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






20. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






21. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






22. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






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






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






25. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






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






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28. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






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






30. Antoni van Leeuwenhoek is the first to observe microbes with a homemade microscope - using samples he collected from his teeth scrapings - raindrops - and his own feces. He calls them 'animalcules.'






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






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






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






34. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






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






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






38. Naval Battle of the Downs






39. Jacques Aymar-Vernay - who later reintroduced Dowsing into popular use in Europe - is born.






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






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






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






43. Torture is outlawed in England.






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






45. The Battle of St. Gotthard - Count Raimondo Montecuccoli defeats the Ottomans. The Peace of Vasvar






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






47. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






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






49. France takes full political and military control over its colonial possessions in New France.






50. Aurochs go extinct.