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17th Century Timeline

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1. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






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






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






4. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






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6. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






7. The Defenestration of Prague






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






9. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






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






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






12. St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican completed.






13. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






14. The Siege of Derry.






15. Franco-Dutch War.






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






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






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19. The Glorious Revolution starts with the Dutch Republic invading England - England becomes a constitutional monarchy.






20. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






21. The Irish Rebellion.






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






23. 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.






24. The Great Fire of London.






25. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






26. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






27. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






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






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






30. 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






31. Mount Vesuvius erupts






32. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






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






34. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






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






36. The Bank of England is established.






37. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






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






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






40. The Hudson's Bay Company is founded in Canada.






41. Torture is outlawed in England.






42. Ottoman campaign to help the Ukrainian Cossacks. John Sobieski defeats the Ottomans at the second battle of Khotyn (1673).






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






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






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






46. The Defenestration of Prague






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






48. The Deluge wars leave Polish






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






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