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17th Century Timeline

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






2. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






3. The Siege of Derry.






4. Sultan Mehmed IV - advised by Kara Mustafa - decides to disregard the existing peace treaty with Leopold I - due to expire in 1684.






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






6. The Great Plague of London.






7. Tokugawa Ieyasu seizes control of Japan and establishes the Tokugawa Shogunate - beginning the Edo period that lasts until 1869.






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






9. Famine in France kills 2 million.






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






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






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






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






14. The Russian famine of 1601






15. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






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






17. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






18. The College of William and Mary is founded in Williamsburg - Virginia by a royal charter.






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






21. 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.






22. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






23. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






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






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






26. The Tokugawa Shogunate institutes Sakoku- foreigners are expelled and no one is allowed to enter or leave Japan.






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






28. Beginning of English Civil War - conflict will end in 1651 with the execution of King Charles I - abolishment of the monarchy and the establishment of the supremacy of Parliament over the king.






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






30. Bethlen Gabor allies with the Ottomans and an invasion of Moldavia takes place. The Polish suffer a disaster at Cecora on the River Prut.






31. The Irish Rebellion.






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






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






34. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






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






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






37. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






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






39. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






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






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






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






43. Lithuanian Civil War






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






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






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






47. The Northern Wars cement Sweden's rise as a Great Power.






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






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






50. Mount Vesuvius erupts