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17th Century Timeline

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1. 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.






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






3. 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.






4. Mary II of England dies






5. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






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






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






8. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






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






10. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






11. The Second Anglo-Dutch War fought between England and the United Provinces.






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






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






14. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






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






16. Mount Vesuvius erupts






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






24. The Bohemian Revolt precipitates the Thirty Years' War which devastates Europe in the years 1618






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






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






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






28. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






29. 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.






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






31. As chief minister - Cardinal Richelieu centralises power in France.






32. Battle of L






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






34. A Habsburg council of war is held in Vienna.






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






36. Franco-Dutch War.






37. Time of Troubles - Vasili IV becomes Tzar of Russia.






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






39. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






40. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






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






42. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






43. Famine in France kills 2 million.






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






45. Mehmed K






46. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






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






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






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






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