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17th Century Timeline

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1. The fortresses of Veszpr






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






3. 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.






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






5. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






6. The Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth army defeats combined Russian- Swedish forces at the Battle of Klushino and conquers Moscow.






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






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






9. Polish-Ottoman War.






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






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






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






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






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






15. Franco-Dutch War.






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






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






18. The Russian famine of 1601






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






20. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






21. 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.






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






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






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






25. 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






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






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






28. 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.'






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






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






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






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






33. The Siege of Derry.






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






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






36. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






37. La Salle explores the length of the Mississippi River and claims Louisiana for France.






38. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






39. The Great Fire of London.






40. Wars of the Three Kingdoms - civil wars throughout Scotland - Ireland - and England.






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






42. Ren






43. Famine in France kills 2 million.






44. Battle of N






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






46. Mount Vesuvius erupts






47. Battle of N






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






49. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






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






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