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17th Century Timeline

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






2. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






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






4. Mary II of England dies






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






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






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






8. The Ottomans capture Crete.






9. Pedro de Peralta - governor of New Mexico - establishes the settlement of Santa Fe.






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






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






12. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






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






14. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






15. Mount Vesuvius erupts






16. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






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






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






19. Torture is outlawed in England.






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






21. The Treaty of Westminster ends the war between England and the Republic of the United Provinces.






22. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






23. Beginning of English Civil War - conflict will end in 1651 with the execution of King Charles I - abolishment of the monarchy and the establishment of the supremacy of Parliament over the king.






24. The Russian famine of 1601






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






26. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






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






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






29. 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.






30. The Brownist Pilgrims arrive in the Mayflower at Cape Cod






31. The Great Plague of Seville.






32. The Time of Troubles in Russia ends with the establishment of the House of Romanov which rules until 1917.






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






34. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






35. Battle of N






36. The Irish Rebellion.






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






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






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






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






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






42. The Deluge wars leave Polish






43. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






44. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






45. The Great Fire of London.






46. Famine in France kills 2 million.






47. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






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






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






50. William ascends to the throne over England - Scotland - and Ireland.