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17th Century Timeline

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






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






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






4. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






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






6. Aurochs go extinct.






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






8. The Great Plague of London.






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






10. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






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






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






13. Mount Vesuvius erupts






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






15. The fortresses of Veszpr






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






23. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






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






25. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






26. Mehmed K






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






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






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






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






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






32. The Siege of Derry.






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






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






35. Disagreements between the Farnese and Barberini Pope Urban VIII escalate into the Wars of Castro and last until 1649.






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






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






38. Franco-Dutch War.






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






40. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






41. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






42. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






43. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






44. Koxinga captures Taiwan from the Dutch and founds the Kingdom of Tungning which rules until 1683.






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






46. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






47. Polish






48. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






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






50. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.