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17th Century Timeline

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






2. Elizabeth I of England dies and is succeeded by her cousin King James VI of Scotland - uniting the crowns of Scotland and England.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






11. Franco-Dutch War.






12. The Bank of England is established.






13. Mehmed K






14. The death of Miyamoto Musashi - legendary Japanese Samurai warrior - of natural causes.






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






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






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






18. The Deluge wars leave Polish






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






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






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






22. Peace Treaty of Lisbon between Spain and Portugal recognizes Portugal as independent country.






23. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






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






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






26. The Portuguese Restoration War led to the end of the Iberian Union.






27. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






28. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






29. Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before theInquisition.






30. Polish






31. The Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas - the oldest existing university in Asia - established by the Dominican Order in Manila






32. The Russian famine of 1601






33. 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.






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






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






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






37. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






38. The Karposh rebellion is crushed in present-day Republic of Macedonia - Skopje is retaken by the Ottoman Turks. Karposh is killed - and the rebels are defeated. Giles Cory was pressed to death during the Salem witch trials in the 1690s






39. Mary II of England dies






40. 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.






41. Polish






42. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






43. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






44. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






45. The Defenestration of Prague






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






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






48. The reign of the Kangxi Emperor of China begins.






49. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






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