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17th Century Timeline

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1. The Siege of Derry.






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






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






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






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






6. John Locke publishes his first 'Letter Concerning Toleration'.






7. The Bank of England is established.






8. The Deluge wars leave Polish






9. Mehmed K






10. The Defenestration of Prague






11. 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.'






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






13. Mehmed K






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






15. The Ottomans capture Crete.






16. Mary II of England dies






17. The Irish Rebellion.






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






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






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






21. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






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






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






24. Mount Vesuvius erupts






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






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






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






28. The Ottomans capture Crete.






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






30. Battle of N






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






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






33. Famine in Finland wipes out almost a third of the population.






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






35. Flight of the Earls (the fleeing of most of the native Gaelic aristocracy) occurs from County Donegal in the west of Ulster in Ireland.






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






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






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






39. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






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






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






42. Battle of N






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






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






45. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






46. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






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






48. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






49. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






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