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17th Century Timeline

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






2. The last remaining Moriscos (Moors who had nominally converted to Christianity) in Spain are expelled.






3. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






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






5. Lithuanian Civil War






6. The Bank of England is established.






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






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






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






10. Cardinal Richelieu allies with Swedish Protestant forces in the Thirty Years' War to counter Ferdinand II's expansion.






11. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






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






13. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






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






15. 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






16. Antoni van Leeuwenhoek is the first to observe microbes with a homemade microscope - using samples he collected from his teeth scrapings - raindrops - and his own feces. He calls them 'animalcules.'






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






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






19. The Glorious Revolution starts with the Dutch Republic invading England - England becomes a constitutional monarchy.






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






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






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






23. The Portuguese Restoration War led to the end of the Iberian Union.






24. Michael the Brave (first unificator of Romania) - voivode of Wallachia - Moldavia and Transylvania - is assassinated by the order of the Habsburg general Giorgio Basta at C






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






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






27. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






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29. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






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






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






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






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






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35. The Great Plague of London.






36. Emperor Fasilides founds the city of Gondar - which becomes the capital of Ethiopia for the next two centuries.






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38. Cardinal Richelieu allies with Swedish Protestant forces in the Thirty Years' War to counter Ferdinand II's expansion.






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






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






41. Fronde civil war in France.






42. Battle of N






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






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






45. The Great Plague of Seville.






46. Treaty of Vienna ends anti-Habsburg uprising in Royal Hungary.






47. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






48. The Battle of Vienna finishes the Ottoman Empire's hegemony in south-eastern Europe.






49. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






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