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17th Century Timeline

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1. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






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






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






4. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






5. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






6. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






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






8. Jamestown massacre - Algonquian natives kill 347 English settlers outside Jamestown - Virginia (1/3 of the colony's population) and burn the Henricus settlement.






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






10. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






11. John Locke publishes his first 'Letter Concerning Toleration'.






12. Cardinal Richelieu allies with Swedish Protestant forces in the Thirty Years' War to counter Ferdinand II's expansion.






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






14. Battle of N






15. The Great Turkish War halts the Ottoman Empire's expansion into Europe.






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






17. The Battle of Vienna finishes the Ottoman Empire's hegemony in south-eastern Europe.






18. Franco-Dutch War.






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






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






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






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






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






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






25. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






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






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






28. Thomas Savery demonstrates his first steam engine to the Royal Society.






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






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






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






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






33. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






34. Battle of L






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






36. Mehmed K






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






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






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






40. Mary II of England dies






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






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






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






44. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






45. Mehmed K






46. 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.






47. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






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






49. Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge founded.






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