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17th Century Timeline

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






2. The Defenestration of Prague






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






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






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






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






7. Mehmed K






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






9. St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican completed.






10. Bethlen Gabor allies with the Ottomans and an invasion of Moldavia takes place. The Polish suffer a disaster at Cecora on the River Prut.






11. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






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






13. A Habsburg council of war is held in Vienna.






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






15. Lithuanian Civil War






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






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






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






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






20. Ren






21. Battle of L






22. Mehmed K






23. The Ottomans capture Crete.






24. The Great Fire of London.






25. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






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






27. Naval Battle of the Downs






28. Giovanni Battista Pamphili is elected PopeInnocent X at the Papal conclave of 1644.






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






30. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






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






32. The Battle of Chocim - Poles and Cossacks under Jan Karol Chodkiewicz defeat the Ottomans.






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






34. The Battle of Killiecrankie is fought between Jacobite and Williamite forces in Highland Perthshire






35. The Russian famine of 1601






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






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






38. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






39. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






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






41. The Defenestration of Prague






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






43. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






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






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






46. The Great Plague of Seville.






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






48. John Evelyn's forestry book - Sylva - is published in England.






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






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