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17th Century Timeline

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






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






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






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6. British troops capture New Amsterdam and rename it New York.






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






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






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






11. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






12. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






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






14. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






15. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






16. The Northern Wars cement Sweden's rise as a Great Power.






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






18. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






19. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






20. Aurochs go extinct.






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






22. The Irish Rebellion.






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






24. Battle of L






25. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






26. Lithuanian Civil War






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






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






29. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






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






31. Naval Battle of the Downs






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






33. The Treaty of Zurawno brings Polish-Ottoman hostilities to a halt.






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






35. After his father Shah Jahan completes the Taj Mahal - his son Aurangzeb deposes him as ruler of the Mughal Empire.






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






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






38. Torture is outlawed in England.






39. The Northern Wars cement Sweden's rise as a Great Power.






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






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






42. 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.






43. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






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






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






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






47. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






48. British troops capture New Amsterdam and rename it New York.






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






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