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17th Century Timeline

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






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






3. The Irish Rebellion.






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






5. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






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






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






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






9. Polish






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






11. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






12. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






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






14. The Russian famine of 1601






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






16. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






17. 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.






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






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






20. Cape Town founded by the Dutch EastIndia Company in South Africa.






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






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






23. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






24. The fortresses of Veszpr






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






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






27. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






28. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






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






30. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






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






32. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






33. After his father Shah Jahan completes the Taj Mahal - his son Aurangzeb deposes him as ruler of the Mughal Empire.






34. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






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






36. The Great Plague of Seville.






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






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






39. Mount Vesuvius erupts






40. 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.'






41. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






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






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






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






45. Lithuanian Civil War






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






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






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






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






50. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






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