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17th Century Timeline

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






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






3. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






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






5. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






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






7. Mount Vesuvius erupts






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






9. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






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






11. Maffeo Barberini is elected Pope Urban VIII at the Papal conclave of 1623.






12. Naval Battle of the Downs






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






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






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






16. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






17. Jacques Aymar-Vernay - who later reintroduced Dowsing into popular use in Europe - is born.






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






19. Jamestown massacre - Algonquian natives kill 347 English settlers outside Jamestown - Virginia (1/3 of the colony's population) and burn the Henricus settlement.






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






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






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






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






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






25. Mehmed K






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






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






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






29. New Amsterdam founded by the Dutch WestIndia Company in North America.






30. New Amsterdam founded by the Dutch WestIndia Company in North America.






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






32. Franco-Dutch War.






33. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






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






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






36. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






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






38. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






39. The Irish Rebellion.






40. The Siege of Derry.






41. 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.






42. Mary II of England dies






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






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






45. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






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






47. The Time of Troubles in Russia ends with the establishment of the House of Romanov which rules until 1917.






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






49. The fortresses of Veszpr






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