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17th Century Timeline

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






2. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






3. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






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






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






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






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






8. Mount Vesuvius erupts






9. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






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






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






12. Famine in France kills 2 million.






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






14. Ren






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






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






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






18. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






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






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






21. Battle of N






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






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






24. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






25. 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.






26. The Pueblo Revolt drives the Spanish out of New Mexico until 1692.






27. The Treaty of Karlowitz ends the Great Turkish War.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






36. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






37. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






38. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






39. Mary II of England dies






40. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






41. The Long War between the Ottoman Empire and Austria is ended with the Peace of Zsitvatorok - Austria abandons Transylvania.






42. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






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






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






45. English Civil War ends with the Parliamentarian victory at the Battle of Worcester.






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






47. The Bank of England is established.






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






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






50. The Peace of Westphalia ends the Thirty Years' War and the Eighty Years' War and marks the ends of Spain and the Holy Roman Empire as major European powers.