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17th Century Timeline

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






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






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






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






5. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






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






7. Bethlen Gabor - Prince of Transylvania joins Protestant Rebels.






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






9. Battle of L






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






11. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






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






13. The Great Plague of London.






14. The Great Plague of Seville.






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






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






17. Bethlen Gabor allies with the Ottomans and an invasion of Moldavia takes place. The Polish suffer a disaster at Cecora on the River Prut.






18. Emperor Ferdinand II defeats the Bohemian rebels in the Battle of White Mountain.






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






20. Ottoman war with Venice. The Ottomans invade Crete and capture Canea.






21. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






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






23. Koxinga captures Taiwan from the Dutch and founds the Kingdom of Tungning which rules until 1683.






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






25. Dutch EastIndia Company founded. Its success contributes to the Dutch Golden Age.






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






27. 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.






28. Disagreements between the Farnese and Barberini Pope Urban VIII escalate into the Wars of Castro and last until 1649.






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






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






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






32. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






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






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






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






36. Mount Vesuvius erupts






37. The Irish Rebellion.






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






39. The Irish Rebellion.






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






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






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






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






44. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






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






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






47. Emperor Fasilides founds the city of Gondar - which becomes the capital of Ethiopia for the next two centuries.






48. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






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






50. Lithuanian Civil War