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17th Century Timeline

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






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






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






4. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






5. The Mughal Empire nearly bans the EastIndia Company in response to pirate Henry Every's capture of the Ganj-i-Sawai






6. Torture is outlawed in England.






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






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






9. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






10. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






11. Lynching of Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis de Witt in the Hague






12. Edict of Fontainebleau outlaws Protestantism in France. King Charles II dies






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






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






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






16. Battle of N






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






18. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






19. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






20. The Raid on the Medway during the Second Anglo-Dutch War.






21. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






22. Wars of the Three Kingdoms - civil wars throughout Scotland - Ireland - and England.






23. Naval Battle of the Downs






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






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






26. Michael the Brave (first unificator of Romania) - voivode of Wallachia - Moldavia and Transylvania - is assassinated by the order of the Habsburg general Giorgio Basta at C






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






28. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






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






30. The Siege of Derry.






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






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






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






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






35. The Portuguese Restoration War led to the end of the Iberian Union.






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






37. Lithuanian Civil War






38. Cardinal Richelieu lays siege to Protestant La Rochelle which eventually capitulates.






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






40. The Battle of St. Gotthard - Count Raimondo Montecuccoli defeats the Ottomans. The Peace of Vasvar






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






42. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






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






44. Michael the Brave (first unificator of Romania) - voivode of Wallachia - Moldavia and Transylvania - is assassinated by the order of the Habsburg general Giorgio Basta at C






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






46. The fortresses of Veszpr






47. The Deluge wars leave Polish






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






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






50. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.