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17th Century Timeline

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






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






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






4. Emperor Ferdinand II defeats the Bohemian rebels in the Battle of White Mountain.






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






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






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






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






10. The Ottomans capture Crete.






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






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






13. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






14. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






15. Shimabara Rebellion of Japanese Christians - ronin and peasants against Edo.






16. Franco-Dutch War.






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






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






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






21. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






22. France takes full political and military control over its colonial possessions in New France.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






34. The Irish Rebellion.






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






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






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






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






39. Polish-Ottoman War.






40. Shimabara Rebellion of Japanese Christians - ronin and peasants against Edo.






41. Jamestown - Virginia - is settled as what would become the first permanent English colony in North America.






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






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






44. The Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas - the oldest existing university in Asia - established by the Dominican Order in Manila






45. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






46. The Deluge wars leave Polish






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48. The Siege of Derry.






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






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