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17th Century Timeline

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






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






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






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






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






6. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






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






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






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






10. The Ottomans capture Crete.






11. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






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






13. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






29. 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.






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






31. A Habsburg council of war is held in Vienna.






32. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






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






34. Polish-Ottoman War.






35. The Great Fire of London.






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






37. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






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






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






40. Famine in France kills 2 million.






41. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






42. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






43. Polish






44. The Siege of Derry.






45. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






46. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






47. Mary II of England dies






48. Battle of N






49. Torture is outlawed in England.






50. The Battle of Killiecrankie is fought between Jacobite and Williamite forces in Highland Perthshire






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