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17th Century Timeline

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






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






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






4. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






5. The Bank of England is established.






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






7. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






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






9. The Bank of England is established.






10. The War of Devolution; France invades the Netherlands. The Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle (1668) brings this to a halt.






11. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






12. Siamese revolution of 1688 ousted French influence and virtually severed all ties with the West until the 19th century.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






20. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






21. 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






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






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






24. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






25. 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.






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






27. Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before theInquisition.






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






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






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






31. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






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






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






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






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






36. Naval Battle of the Downs






37. The Russian famine of 1601






38. The Treaty of Karlowitz ends the Great Turkish War.






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






40. Battle of L






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






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






43. Pedro de Peralta - governor of New Mexico - establishes the settlement of Santa Fe.






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






45. The fortresses of Veszpr






46. Lynching of Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis de Witt in the Hague






47. The Great Plague of London.






48. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






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






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