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17th Century Timeline

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






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






3. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






4. Aurochs go extinct.






5. Torture is outlawed in England.






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






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






8. The 1700 Cascadia earthquake (magnitude 9) occurs off the coast of the Pacific Northwest; Japan is struck by a tsunami.






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






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






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






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






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






14. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






15. The Time of Troubles in Russia ends with the establishment of the House of Romanov which rules until 1917.






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






17. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






18. Portugal defeats the Kongo Empire at the Battle of Mbwila.






19. Famine in France kills 2 million.






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






21. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






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






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






24. Battle of Kinsale - one of the most important battles in Irish history - fought.






25. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






26. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






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






28. The Time of Troubles in Russia ends with the establishment of the House of Romanov which rules until 1917.






29. The Great Plague of Seville.






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






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






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






33. The Second Anglo-Dutch War fought between England and the United Provinces.






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






35. Jamestown massacre - Algonquian natives kill 347 English settlers outside Jamestown - Virginia (1/3 of the colony's population) and burn the Henricus settlement.






36. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






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






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






39. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






40. The Commonwealth of England ends and the monarchy is brought back during the English Restoration.






41. Franco-Dutch War.






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






43. The College of William and Mary is founded in Williamsburg - Virginia by a royal charter.






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






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






46. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






47. The Deluge wars leave Polish






48. 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.






49. Polish-Ottoman War.






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.







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