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17th Century Timeline

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1. 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






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






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






5. Naval Battle of the Downs






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






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






8. The Great Turkish War halts the Ottoman Empire's expansion into Europe.






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






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






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






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






13. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






21. The Defenestration of Prague






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






23. The Hudson's Bay Company is founded in Canada.






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






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






26. The Ottomans capture Crete.






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






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






29. The death of Miyamoto Musashi - legendary Japanese Samurai warrior - of natural causes.






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






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






32. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






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






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






35. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






36. The death of Miyamoto Musashi - legendary Japanese Samurai warrior - of natural causes.






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






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






39. The Great Turkish War halts the Ottoman Empire's expansion into Europe.






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






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






42. The Commonwealth of England ends and the monarchy is brought back during the English Restoration.






43. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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