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17th Century Timeline

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1. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






9. 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






10. Polish-Ottoman War.






11. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






12. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






13. Famine in France kills 2 million.






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






15. The Bank of England is established.






16. 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.






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






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






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






20. The Siege of Derry.






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






22. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






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






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






25. 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.






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






27. The Long War between the Ottoman Empire and Austria is ended with the Peace of Zsitvatorok - Austria abandons Transylvania.






28. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






29. The fortresses of Veszpr






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






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






32. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






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






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






35. Fronde civil war in France.






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






37. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






38. 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






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






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






41. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






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






43. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






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






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






46. The War of Devolution; France invades the Netherlands. The Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle (1668) brings this to a halt.






47. The Irish Rebellion.






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






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






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