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17th Century Timeline

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1. The 1700 Cascadia earthquake (magnitude 9) occurs off the coast of the Pacific Northwest; Japan is struck by a tsunami.






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






3. Famine in France kills 2 million.






4. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






5. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






6. Battle of N






7. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






8. Fronde civil war in France.






9. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






10. Emperor Ferdinand II defeats the Bohemian rebels in the Battle of White Mountain.






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






12. Torture is outlawed in England.






13. Michael the Brave (first unificator of Romania) - voivode of Wallachia - Moldavia and Transylvania - is assassinated by the order of the Habsburg general Giorgio Basta at C






14. Aurochs go extinct.






15. Mehmed K






16. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






17. 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






18. The fortresses of Veszpr






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






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






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






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






23. The Great Fire of London.






24. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






25. Michael the Brave (first unificator of Romania) - voivode of Wallachia - Moldavia and Transylvania - is assassinated by the order of the Habsburg general Giorgio Basta at C






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






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






28. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






29. The Deluge wars leave Polish






30. France takes full political and military control over its colonial possessions in New France.






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






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






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






34. Mehmed K






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






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






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






38. As chief minister - Cardinal Richelieu centralises power in France.






39. John Evelyn's forestry book - Sylva - is published in England.






40. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






41. The Irish Rebellion.






42. France takes full political and military control over its colonial possessions in New France.






43. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






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






45. Battle of N






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






47. Russia supplants Sweden as the dominant Baltic power after the Great Northern War.






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






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






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