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17th Century Timeline

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1. Portugal defeats the Kongo Empire at the Battle of Mbwila.






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






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






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






5. Shimabara Rebellion of Japanese Christians - ronin and peasants against Edo.






6. 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






7. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






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






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






11. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






12. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






13. China conquers the Kingdom of Tungning and annexes Taiwan.






14. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






15. The Irish Rebellion.






16. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






17. Mount Vesuvius erupts






18. Polish-Ottoman War.






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






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






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






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






23. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






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






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






26. The Great Plague of Seville.






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






28. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






29. The Irish Rebellion.






30. Torture is outlawed in England.






31. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






32. The Ottomans capture Crete.






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






34. The Hudson's Bay Company is founded in Canada.






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






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






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






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






39. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






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






41. 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.'






42. Franco-Dutch War.






43. The last remaining Moriscos (Moors who had nominally converted to Christianity) in Spain are expelled.






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






45. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






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






47. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






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






49. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






50. Naval Battle of the Downs