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17th Century Timeline

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1. Peace Treaty of Lisbon between Spain and Portugal recognizes Portugal as independent country.






2. The Deluge wars leave Polish






3. Dutch EastIndia Company founded. Its success contributes to the Dutch Golden Age.






4. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






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






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






7. Battle of N






8. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






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






10. The Glorious Revolution starts with the Dutch Republic invading England - England becomes a constitutional monarchy.






11. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






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






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






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






15. Mary II of England dies






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






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






18. Ren






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






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






21. Battle of L






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






23. Torture is outlawed in England.






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






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






26. The Great Plague of London.






27. Polish-Ottoman War.






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






29. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






30. Polish-Ottoman War.






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






32. Giovanni Battista Pamphili is elected PopeInnocent X at the Papal conclave of 1644.






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






34. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






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






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






37. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






38. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






39. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






40. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






41. The last remaining Moriscos (Moors who had nominally converted to Christianity) in Spain are expelled.






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






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






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






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






46. Russia and the Ottoman Empire commence the Russo-Turkish Wars.






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






48. Dutch EastIndia Company founded. Its success contributes to the Dutch Golden Age.






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






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