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17th Century Timeline

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






2. 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.






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






4. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






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






6. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






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






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






9. Mary II of England dies






10. The Grand Alliance sought to stop French expansion during the Nine Years War.






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






12. Emperor Fasilides founds the city of Gondar - which becomes the capital of Ethiopia for the next two centuries.






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






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






15. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






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






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






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






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






20. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






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






22. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






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






24. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






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






26. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






27. The Great Plague of Seville.






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






29. The Great Plague of London.






30. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






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






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






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






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






35. The Great Plague of London.






36. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






37. Flight of the Earls (the fleeing of most of the native Gaelic aristocracy) occurs from County Donegal in the west of Ulster in Ireland.






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






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






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






43. Michael the Brave (first unificator of Romania) - voivode of Wallachia - Moldavia and Transylvania - is assassinated by the order of the Habsburg general Giorgio Basta at C






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






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






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






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






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






49. Emperor Fasilides founds the city of Gondar - which becomes the capital of Ethiopia for the next two centuries.






50. Siamese revolution of 1688 ousted French influence and virtually severed all ties with the West until the 19th century.