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17th Century Timeline

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






2. The Irish Rebellion.






3. The Netherlands and Spain agree to a Twelve Years' Truce in the Eighty Years' War.






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






5. The Bohemian Revolt precipitates the Thirty Years' War which devastates Europe in the years 1618






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






7. The Defenestration of Prague






8. 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.'






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






10. Edict of Fontainebleau outlaws Protestantism in France. King Charles II dies






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






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






13. Edict of Fontainebleau outlaws Protestantism in France. King Charles II dies






14. Mary II of England dies






15. The Great Plague of Seville.






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






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






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






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






20. 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






21. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






22. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






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






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






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






26. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






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






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






29. Battle of L






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






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






32. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






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






34. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






35. Mary II of England dies






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






44. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






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






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






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






48. The Ottomans capture Crete.






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






50. The Second Anglo-Dutch War fought between England and the United Provinces.