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17th Century Timeline

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1. Torture is outlawed in England.






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






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






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






5. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






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






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






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






9. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






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






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






12. The Irish Rebellion.






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






14. Polish-Ottoman War.






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






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






17. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Pernambuco and founds Dutch Brazil.






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






19. The Defenestration of Prague






20. English Civil War ends with the Parliamentarian victory at the Battle of Worcester.






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






22. Franco-Dutch War.






23. The Defenestration of Prague






24. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






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






26. Giovanni Battista Pamphili is elected PopeInnocent X at the Papal conclave of 1644.






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






28. Famine in France kills 2 million.






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






30. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






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






32. Mehmed K






33. Capture of Ormuz; The island of Hormuz was captured by an Anglo-Persian force from Portuguese.






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






35. A Habsburg council of war is held in Vienna.






36. Mary II of England dies






37. The Russian famine of 1601






38. Lithuanian Civil War






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






40. The Bank of England is established.






41. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






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






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






44. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






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






46. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






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






48. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






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






50. Russia and the Ottoman Empire commence the Russo-Turkish Wars.