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17th Century Timeline

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1. Flight of the Earls (the fleeing of most of the native Gaelic aristocracy) occurs from County Donegal in the west of Ulster in Ireland.






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






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






4. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






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






6. The Deluge wars leave Polish






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






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






9. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






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






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






12. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






13. Aurochs go extinct.






14. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






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






16. Elizabeth I of England dies and is succeeded by her cousin King James VI of Scotland - uniting the crowns of Scotland and England.






17. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






18. Polish-Ottoman War.






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






20. 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.






21. The Battle of Killiecrankie is fought between Jacobite and Williamite forces in Highland Perthshire






22. Lithuanian Civil War






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






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25. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






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






27. 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.'






28. The Great Plague of London.






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






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






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






32. Time of Troubles - Vasili IV becomes Tzar of Russia.






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






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35. Sultan Mehmed IV - advised by Kara Mustafa - decides to disregard the existing peace treaty with Leopold I - due to expire in 1684.






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






37. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






38. Franco-Dutch War.






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






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






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. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






43. Fronde civil war in France.






44. The Mughal Empire nearly bans the EastIndia Company in response to pirate Henry Every's capture of the Ganj-i-Sawai






45. Time of Troubles - Vasili IV becomes Tzar of Russia.






46. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






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






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






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






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