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17th Century Timeline

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1. The Russian famine of 1601






2. Captain Willem Janszoon and his crew aboard the Dutch EastIndia Company ship Duyfken becomes the first recorded Europeans to sight and make landfall in Australia.






3. Ottoman campaign to help the Ukrainian Cossacks. John Sobieski defeats the Ottomans at the second battle of Khotyn (1673).






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






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






6. Torture is outlawed in England.






7. Aurochs go extinct.






8. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






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






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






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






12. The Great Plague of Seville.






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






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






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






16. Battle of N






17. Mount Vesuvius erupts






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






19. Sultan Mehmed IV - advised by Kara Mustafa - decides to disregard the existing peace treaty with Leopold I - due to expire in 1684.






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






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






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






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






24. The Bank of England is established.






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






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






27. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






28. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






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






30. Mary II of England dies






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






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






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






34. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






35. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






36. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






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






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






39. 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






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






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






42. The Deluge wars leave Polish






43. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






44. Lithuanian Civil War






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






46. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






47. Battle of N






48. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






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






50. 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.