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17th Century Timeline

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






2. Torture is outlawed in England.






3. The Treaty of Westminster ends the war between England and the Republic of the United Provinces.






4. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






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






6. Emperor Ferdinand II defeats the Bohemian rebels in the Battle of White Mountain.






7. Mehmed K






8. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






9. Cape Town founded by the Dutch EastIndia Company in South Africa.






10. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






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






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






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






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






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






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






17. Lithuanian Civil War






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






25. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






26. Polish-Ottoman War.






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






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






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






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






31. Flight of the Earls (the fleeing of most of the native Gaelic aristocracy) occurs from County Donegal in the west of Ulster in Ireland.






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






33. The Great Fire of London.






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






35. The Great Plague of London.






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






37. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






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






39. Treaty of Vienna ends anti-Habsburg uprising in Royal Hungary.






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






41. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






42. The Irish Rebellion.






43. The Ottomans capture Crete.






44. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






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






46. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






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






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






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






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