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17th Century Timeline

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






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






3. 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






4. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






5. Battle of N






6. The Siege of Derry.






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






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






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






10. The Russian famine of 1601






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






12. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






13. The Irish Rebellion.






14. Polish-Ottoman War.






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






16. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






17. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






18. The Treaty of Westminster ends the war between England and the Republic of the United Provinces.






19. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






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






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






22. 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.






23. 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.'






24. The earliest known first-class cricket match took place in Sussex.






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






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






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






28. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






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






30. Peter the Great becomes joint ruler of Russia (sole tsar in 1696).






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






32. Franco-Dutch War.






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






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






35. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






36. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






37. Battle of L






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






39. The Ottomans capture Crete.






40. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






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






42. The Raid on the Medway during the Second Anglo-Dutch War.






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






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






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






46. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






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






48. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






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






50. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.