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17th Century Timeline

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






2. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






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






4. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






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






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






7. The Grand Alliance sought to stop French expansion during the Nine Years War.






8. Battle of Kinsale - one of the most important battles in Irish history - fought.






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






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11. Capture of Ormuz; The island of Hormuz was captured by an Anglo-Persian force from Portuguese.






12. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






13. 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.






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






15. The Mughal Empire nearly bans the EastIndia Company in response to pirate Henry Every's capture of the Ganj-i-Sawai






16. Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge founded.






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






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






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






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21. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






22. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






23. The Bank of England is established.






24. Torture is outlawed in England.






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






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






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28. Famine in France kills 2 million.






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






30. The Great Plague of London.






31. Franco-Dutch War.






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






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






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






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






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






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






38. Tokugawa Ieyasu seizes control of Japan and establishes the Tokugawa Shogunate - beginning the Edo period that lasts until 1869.






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






40. The Hudson's Bay Company is founded in Canada.






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






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






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






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






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






46. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






47. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






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






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






50. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.