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17th Century Timeline

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1. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






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






3. Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman achieves the first recorded European sighting of New Zealand.






4. Fronde civil war in France.






5. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






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






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






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






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






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






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






12. Mary II of England dies






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






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






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






16. Ren






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






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






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






20. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






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






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






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






24. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






25. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






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






27. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






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






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






30. Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge founded.






31. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






32. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






33. Naval Battle of the Downs






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






35. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






36. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






37. Polish-Ottoman War.






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






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






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






41. The Great Fire of London.






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






43. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






44. Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge founded.






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






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






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






48. The Ottomans capture Crete from the Venetians after the Siege of Candia.






49. The Siege of Derry.






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