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17th Century Timeline

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1. The Great Fire of London.






2. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






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






4. Elizabeth I of England dies and is succeeded by her cousin King James VI of Scotland - uniting the crowns of Scotland and England.






5. Fronde civil war in France.






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






7. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






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






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






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






11. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






12. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






13. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






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






16. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






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






18. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






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






20. The 1700 Cascadia earthquake (magnitude 9) occurs off the coast of the Pacific Northwest; Japan is struck by a tsunami.






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






22. 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.'






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






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






26. Thomas Savery demonstrates his first steam engine to the Royal Society.






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






28. 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.






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






30. The Second Anglo-Dutch War fought between England and the United Provinces.






31. The Ottomans capture Crete from the Venetians after the Siege of Candia.






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






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






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






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






37. Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman achieves the first recorded European sighting of New Zealand.






38. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






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






40. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






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






42. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






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44. Polish-Ottoman War.






45. Louis XIV accepts the Spanish crown on behalf of his grandson Philip of Anjou - triggering the War of the Spanish Succession






46. 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.'






47. The Great Plague of Seville.






48. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






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






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