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17th Century Timeline

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






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






3. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






4. Battle of Kinsale - one of the most important battles in Irish history - fought.






5. Siamese revolution of 1688 ousted French influence and virtually severed all ties with the West until the 19th century.






6. The Treaty of Zurawno brings Polish-Ottoman hostilities to a halt.






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






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






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






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






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






12. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






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






14. The Siege of Derry.






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






16. The Great Fire of London.






17. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






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






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






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






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






23. The Ottomans capture Crete.






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






25. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






26. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






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






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






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






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






31. The Glorious Revolution starts with the Dutch Republic invading England - England becomes a constitutional monarchy.






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






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






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






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






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






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






38. Quebec City founded by Samuel de Champlain in New France (present-day Canada).






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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