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17th Century Timeline

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






2. Jacques Aymar-Vernay - who later reintroduced Dowsing into popular use in Europe - is born.






3. 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.






4. The Great Plague of London.






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






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






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






8. Polish-Ottoman War.






9. The Grand Alliance sought to stop French expansion during the Nine Years War.






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






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






12. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






13. Franco-Dutch War.






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






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






16. The fortresses of Veszpr






17. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






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






19. Jacques Aymar-Vernay - who later reintroduced Dowsing into popular use in Europe - is born.






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






21. China conquers the Kingdom of Tungning and annexes Taiwan.






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






23. Mehmed K






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






25. Torture is outlawed in England.






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






27. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Pernambuco and founds Dutch Brazil.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






38. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






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






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






41. The Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth army defeats combined Russian- Swedish forces at the Battle of Klushino and conquers Moscow.






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






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






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






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






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






47. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






48. Famine in France kills 2 million.






49. The Ottomans capture Crete.






50. 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







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