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17th Century Timeline

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1. The fortresses of Veszpr






2. The Mughal Empire nearly bans the EastIndia Company in response to pirate Henry Every's capture of the Ganj-i-Sawai






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






4. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






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






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






7. After modernizing his army - Abbas I expands the Persian Empire by capturing territory from the Ottomans and the Portuguese.






8. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






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






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






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






12. 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






13. Fronde civil war in France.






14. The Deluge wars leave Polish






15. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






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






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






18. Famine in France kills 2 million.






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






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






21. The Defenestration of Prague






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






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






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






25. Mary II of England dies






26. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






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






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






29. Bethlen Gabor allies with the Ottomans and an invasion of Moldavia takes place. The Polish suffer a disaster at Cecora on the River Prut.






30. The Siege of Derry.






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






32. Franco-Dutch War.






33. Cardinal Richelieu lays siege to Protestant La Rochelle which eventually capitulates.






34. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






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






36. The Irish Rebellion.






37. The Bank of England is established.






38. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






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






40. The Ottomans capture Crete.






41. Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before theInquisition.






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






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






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






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






46. The Mughal Empire nearly bans the EastIndia Company in response to pirate Henry Every's capture of the Ganj-i-Sawai






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






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






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