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17th Century Timeline

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1. Cardinal Richelieu lays siege to Protestant La Rochelle which eventually capitulates.






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






3. Mount Vesuvius erupts






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






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






6. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






7. 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.






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






9. Mount Vesuvius erupts






10. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






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






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






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






15. Torture is outlawed in England.






16. The Commonwealth of England ends and the monarchy is brought back during the English Restoration.






17. Pedro de Peralta - governor of New Mexico - establishes the settlement of Santa Fe.






18. The Defenestration of Prague






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






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






21. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






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






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






24. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






31. Lithuanian Civil War






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






33. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






34. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






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






36. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






37. 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.






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






39. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






40. Mehmed K






41. Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before theInquisition.






42. The Great Plague of Seville.






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






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






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






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






47. The Ottomans capture Crete.






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






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






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