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17th Century Timeline

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






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






3. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






4. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






5. The Bank of England is established.






6. Ren






7. 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






8. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






9. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






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






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






12. The Ottomans capture Crete.






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






14. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






15. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






16. China conquers the Kingdom of Tungning and annexes Taiwan.






17. The reign of the Kangxi Emperor of China begins.






18. Edict of Fontainebleau outlaws Protestantism in France. King Charles II dies






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






26. Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge founded.






27. Battle of N






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






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






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






31. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






32. Mary II of England dies






33. The Battle of Killiecrankie is fought between Jacobite and Williamite forces in Highland Perthshire






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






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






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






37. The Manchu conquer China ending the Ming Dynasty. The subsequent Qing Dynasty rules until 1912.






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






39. Polish






40. The Defenestration of Prague






41. 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






42. Jamestown - Virginia - is settled as what would become the first permanent English colony in North America.






43. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






44. Mount Vesuvius erupts






45. Mary II of England dies






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






47. Famine in France kills 2 million.






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






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






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