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17th Century Timeline

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






2. The Hudson's Bay Company is founded in Canada.






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






4. Giovanni Battista Pamphili is elected PopeInnocent X at the Papal conclave of 1644.






5. Battle of N






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






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






8. Mary II of England dies






9. Maffeo Barberini is elected Pope Urban VIII at the Papal conclave of 1623.






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






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






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






13. The Defenestration of Prague






14. 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






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






16. Aurochs go extinct.






17. The Great Plague of Seville.






18. The Irish Rebellion.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






26. 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






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






28. Captain Willem Janszoon and his crew aboard the Dutch EastIndia Company ship Duyfken becomes the first recorded Europeans to sight and make landfall in Australia.






29. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






30. The Deluge wars leave Polish






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






32. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






33. The Great Fire of London.






34. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






35. Peace Treaty of Lisbon between Spain and Portugal recognizes Portugal as independent country.






36. The Great Plague of London.






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






38. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






39. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






40. The Time of Troubles in Russia ends with the establishment of the House of Romanov which rules until 1917.






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






42. Torture is outlawed in England.






43. The Great Plague of Seville.






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






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






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






47. Polish-Ottoman War.






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






49. The Ottomans capture Crete.






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







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