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17th Century Timeline

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1. After modernizing his army - Abbas I expands the Persian Empire by capturing territory from the Ottomans and the Portuguese.






2. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






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






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






5. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






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






7. Beginning of English Civil War - conflict will end in 1651 with the execution of King Charles I - abolishment of the monarchy and the establishment of the supremacy of Parliament over the king.






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






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






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






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






12. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






13. The Grand Alliance sought to stop French expansion during the Nine Years War.






14. Torture is outlawed in England.






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






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






17. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






18. Mehmed K






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






20. The Great Fire of London.






21. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Bahia in Brazil.






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






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






24. Polish-Ottoman War.






25. The Raid on the Medway during the Second Anglo-Dutch War.






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






27. Fronde civil war in France.






28. Mary II of England dies






29. Thomas Savery demonstrates his first steam engine to the Royal Society.






30. Mehmed K






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






32. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






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






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






35. The Ottomans capture Crete.






36. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






45. Thomas Savery demonstrates his first steam engine to the Royal Society.






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






47. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






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






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






50. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France