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17th Century Timeline

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1. English Civil War ends with the Parliamentarian victory at the Battle of Worcester.






2. The Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth army defeats combined Russian- Swedish forces at the Battle of Klushino and conquers Moscow.






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






4. The Great Fire of London.






5. Fronde civil war in France.






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






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8. Lithuanian Civil War






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






10. Jacques Aymar-Vernay - who later reintroduced Dowsing into popular use in Europe - is born.






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






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






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






14. The fortresses of Veszpr






15. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






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






17. Peter the Great becomes joint ruler of Russia (sole tsar in 1696).






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






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






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






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






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






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






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25. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






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






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28. Emperor Fasilides expels the Catholic Patriarch Afonso Mendes and several Jesuit missionaries from Ethiopia.






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30. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






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






32. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






33. Naval Battle of the Downs






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






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






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






37. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






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39. The Peace of Westphalia ends the Thirty Years' War and the Eighty Years' War and marks the ends of Spain and the Holy Roman Empire as major European powers.






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






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






42. Lithuanian Civil War






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






44. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






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






46. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






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






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






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






50. The Russian famine of 1601