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17th Century Timeline

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1. The Tokugawa Shogunate institutes Sakoku- foreigners are expelled and no one is allowed to enter or leave Japan.






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






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






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






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






6. The Irish Rebellion.






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






8. Maffeo Barberini is elected Pope Urban VIII at the Papal conclave of 1623.






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






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






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






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






13. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






25. The Netherlands and Spain agree to a Twelve Years' Truce in the Eighty Years' War.






26. Capture of Ormuz; The island of Hormuz was captured by an Anglo-Persian force from Portuguese.






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






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






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






30. Famine in France kills 2 million.






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






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






33. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






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






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






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






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






38. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






39. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






40. Franco-Dutch War.






41. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






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






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






44. Mount Vesuvius erupts






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






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






47. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






48. The Treaty of Nerchinsk established a border between Russia and China.






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






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