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17th Century Timeline

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






2. The Ottomans capture Crete.






3. Mount Vesuvius erupts






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






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






6. The Irish Rebellion.






7. Peace Treaty of Lisbon between Spain and Portugal recognizes Portugal as independent country.






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






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






10. Polish-Ottoman War.






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






12. The Long War between the Ottoman Empire and Austria is ended with the Peace of Zsitvatorok - Austria abandons Transylvania.






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






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






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






16. Maffeo Barberini is elected Pope Urban VIII at the Papal conclave of 1623.






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






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






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






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






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






22. 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.'






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






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






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






26. The Treaty of Karlowitz ends the Great Turkish War.






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






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






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






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






31. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






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






33. 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.'






34. Torture is outlawed in England.






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






36. Siamese revolution of 1688 ousted French influence and virtually severed all ties with the West until the 19th century.






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






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






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






40. Mary II of England dies






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






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






43. Torture is outlawed in England.






44. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






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






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






47. Captain Willem Janszoon and his crew aboard the Dutch EastIndia Company ship Duyfken becomes the first recorded Europeans to sight and make landfall in Australia.






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






49. Famine in France kills 2 million.






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