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17th Century Timeline

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






2. The Karposh rebellion is crushed in present-day Republic of Macedonia - Skopje is retaken by the Ottoman Turks. Karposh is killed - and the rebels are defeated. Giles Cory was pressed to death during the Salem witch trials in the 1690s






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






4. Jamestown - Virginia - is settled as what would become the first permanent English colony in North America.






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






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






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






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






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






10. Aurochs go extinct.






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






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






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






14. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






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






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






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






18. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






19. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






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






21. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






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23. The Treaty of Nerchinsk established a border between Russia and China.






24. The Russian famine of 1601






25. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






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






27. China conquers the Kingdom of Tungning and annexes Taiwan.






28. Lithuanian Civil War






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






30. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






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






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






33. The Ottomans capture Crete.






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






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






36. Franco-Dutch War.






37. Polish-Ottoman War.






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






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






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






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






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






43. Fronde civil war in France.






44. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






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






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






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






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






49. Beginning of English Civil War - conflict will end in 1651 with the execution of King Charles I - abolishment of the monarchy and the establishment of the supremacy of Parliament over the king.






50. Peter the Great becomes joint ruler of Russia (sole tsar in 1696).