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17th Century Timeline

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1. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






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






3. Famine in France kills 2 million.






4. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






5. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






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






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






8. Lithuanian Civil War






9. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






10. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






11. Naval Battle of the Downs






12. 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.






13. 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






14. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






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






16. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






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






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






19. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






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






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






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






23. The Siege of Derry.






24. English Civil War ends with the Parliamentarian victory at the Battle of Worcester.






25. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






26. Mehmed K






27. The Irish Rebellion.






28. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






29. Lithuanian Civil War






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. Polish-Ottoman War.






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






33. Fronde civil war in France.






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






35. The Ottomans capture Crete.






36. The Great Plague of Seville.






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






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






39. The Deluge wars leave Polish






40. 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.






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






42. The fortresses of Veszpr






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






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






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






46. The Great Fire of London.






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






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






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






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







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