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17th Century Timeline

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






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






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






4. Disagreements between the Farnese and Barberini Pope Urban VIII escalate into the Wars of Castro and last until 1649.






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






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






7. 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.'






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






16. Aurochs go extinct.






17. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






18. The fortresses of Veszpr






19. As chief minister - Cardinal Richelieu centralises power in France.






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






21. Franco-Dutch War.






22. The Deluge wars leave Polish






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






24. Battle of Kinsale - one of the most important battles in Irish history - fought.






25. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






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






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






28. Disagreements between the Farnese and Barberini Pope Urban VIII escalate into the Wars of Castro and last until 1649.






29. British troops capture New Amsterdam and rename it New York.






30. The Russian famine of 1601






31. The Battle of Killiecrankie is fought between Jacobite and Williamite forces in Highland Perthshire






32. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






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






35. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






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






37. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






38. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






39. The Great Fire of London.






40. A Habsburg council of war is held in Vienna.






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






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






43. 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






44. Polish-Ottoman War.






45. After his father Shah Jahan completes the Taj Mahal - his son Aurangzeb deposes him as ruler of the Mughal Empire.






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






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






49. John Evelyn's forestry book - Sylva - is published in England.






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