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17th Century Timeline

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1. Sultan Mehmed IV - advised by Kara Mustafa - decides to disregard the existing peace treaty with Leopold I - due to expire in 1684.






2. Naval Battle of the Downs






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5. Jacques Aymar-Vernay - who later reintroduced Dowsing into popular use in Europe - is born.






6. The Karposh rebellion is crushed in present-day Republic of Macedonia - Skopje is retaken by the Ottoman Turks. Karposh is killed - and the rebels are defeated. Giles Cory was pressed to death during the Salem witch trials in the 1690s






7. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Pernambuco and founds Dutch Brazil.






8. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






9. The Great Turkish War halts the Ottoman Empire's expansion into Europe.






10. The War of Devolution; France invades the Netherlands. The Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle (1668) brings this to a halt.






11. The Defenestration of Prague






12. The Russian famine of 1601






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






14. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






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






16. Lynching of Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis de Witt in the Hague






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






18. Sultan Mehmed IV - advised by Kara Mustafa - decides to disregard the existing peace treaty with Leopold I - due to expire in 1684.






19. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






20. The Great Fire of London.






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






22. Edict of Fontainebleau outlaws Protestantism in France. King Charles II dies






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






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






25. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






26. The Karposh rebellion is crushed in present-day Republic of Macedonia - Skopje is retaken by the Ottoman Turks. Karposh is killed - and the rebels are defeated. Giles Cory was pressed to death during the Salem witch trials in the 1690s






27. Naval Battle of the Downs






28. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






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






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






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






32. Mehmed K






33. Battle of L






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






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






36. The Defenestration of Prague






37. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






38. Tokugawa Ieyasu seizes control of Japan and establishes the Tokugawa Shogunate - beginning the Edo period that lasts until 1869.






39. Mary II of England dies






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






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






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






43. The Bank of England is established.






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






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






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






47. Torture is outlawed in England.






48. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






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






50. Polish-Ottoman War.







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