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17th Century Timeline

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






2. The Russian famine of 1601






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






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






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






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






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






8. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






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






10. Battle of N






11. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






12. The Treaty of Zurawno brings Polish-Ottoman hostilities to a halt.






13. John Locke publishes his first 'Letter Concerning Toleration'.






14. Famine in France kills 2 million.






15. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






16. New Amsterdam founded by the Dutch WestIndia Company in North America.






17. The Great Plague of London.






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






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






20. Cardinal Richelieu lays siege to Protestant La Rochelle which eventually capitulates.






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






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






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






24. 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.






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






26. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






27. Fronde civil war in France.






28. Cardinal Richelieu lays siege to Protestant La Rochelle which eventually capitulates.






29. 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.'






30. Elizabeth I of England dies and is succeeded by her cousin King James VI of Scotland - uniting the crowns of Scotland and England.






31. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






32. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






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






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






35. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






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






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






38. The Bank of England is established.






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






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






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






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






43. Lithuanian Civil War






44. The Deluge wars leave Polish






45. The Portuguese Restoration War led to the end of the Iberian Union.






46. The Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth army defeats combined Russian- Swedish forces at the Battle of Klushino and conquers Moscow.






47. Ren






48. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






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






50. The Treaty of Zurawno brings Polish-Ottoman hostilities to a halt.