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17th Century Timeline

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1. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






2. The Great Plague of London.






3. Famine in France kills 2 million.






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






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






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






7. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






8. Seven-year-old Mehmed IV becomes sultan.






9. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






10. Antoni van Leeuwenhoek is the first to observe microbes with a homemade microscope - using samples he collected from his teeth scrapings - raindrops - and his own feces. He calls them 'animalcules.'






11. The Great Fire of London.






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






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






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






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






16. Polish






17. The Siege of Derry.






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






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






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






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






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






23. Battle of Kinsale - one of the most important battles in Irish history - fought.






24. St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican completed.






25. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






26. The Irish Rebellion.






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






28. The Portuguese Restoration War led to the end of the Iberian Union.






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






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






31. Polish-Ottoman War.






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






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






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






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






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






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






38. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






39. Polish






40. The Deluge wars leave Polish






41. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






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






43. Mehmed K






44. 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






45. Louis XIV accepts the Spanish crown on behalf of his grandson Philip of Anjou - triggering the War of the Spanish Succession






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






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






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






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






50. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.