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17th Century Timeline

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






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






3. Cardinal Richelieu allies with Swedish Protestant forces in the Thirty Years' War to counter Ferdinand II's expansion.






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






5. The Siege of Derry.






6. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






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






8. The Pueblo Revolt drives the Spanish out of New Mexico until 1692.






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






10. King Charles was compelled to summon Parliament due to the revolt of the Scots.






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






12. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






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






14. Lithuanian Civil War






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






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






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






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






20. The Russian famine of 1601






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






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






23. France takes full political and military control over its colonial possessions in New France.






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






25. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






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






28. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






29. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






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






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






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






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






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






35. The Great Plague of Seville.






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






37. Portugal defeats the Kongo Empire at the Battle of Mbwila.






38. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Bahia in Brazil.






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






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






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






42. The earliest known first-class cricket match took place in Sussex.






43. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






44. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






45. Michael the Brave (first unificator of Romania) - voivode of Wallachia - Moldavia and Transylvania - is assassinated by the order of the Habsburg general Giorgio Basta at C






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






47. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






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






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






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