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17th Century Timeline

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1. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






2. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






9. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






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






11. The Northern Wars cement Sweden's rise as a Great Power.






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






13. Antoni van Leeuwenhoek is the first to observe microbes with a homemade microscope - using samples he collected from his teeth scrapings - raindrops - and his own feces. He calls them 'animalcules.'






14. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






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






16. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






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






18. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






29. Lithuanian Civil War






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






31. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






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






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






34. The Second Anglo-Dutch War fought between England and the United Provinces.






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






36. Famine in France kills 2 million.






37. Louis XIV accepts the Spanish crown on behalf of his grandson Philip of Anjou - triggering the War of the Spanish Succession






38. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






39. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






40. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






41. The Defenestration of Prague






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






43. 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






44. The Bank of England is established.






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






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






47. The Battle of Vienna finishes the Ottoman Empire's hegemony in south-eastern Europe.






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






49. Captain Willem Janszoon and his crew aboard the Dutch EastIndia Company ship Duyfken becomes the first recorded Europeans to sight and make landfall in Australia.






50. Cardinal Richelieu allies with Swedish Protestant forces in the Thirty Years' War to counter Ferdinand II's expansion.