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17th Century Timeline

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1. The Great Plague of Seville.






2. Mary II of England dies






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






4. The Bank of England is established.






5. British troops capture New Amsterdam and rename it New York.






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






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






8. Famine in France kills 2 million.






9. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






10. Polish-Ottoman War.






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






12. The Irish Rebellion.






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






14. The Russian famine of 1601






15. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






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






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






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






19. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






20. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






21. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






22. The Ottomans capture Crete.






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






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






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






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






27. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






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






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






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






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






32. The Defenestration of Prague






33. The Ottomans capture Crete.






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






35. 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.






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






37. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






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






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






41. The Manchus start invading China. Their conquest eventually topples the Ming Dynasty.






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43. The Treaty of Nerchinsk established a border between Russia and China.






44. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






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






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






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






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






49. Portugal defeats the Kongo Empire at the Battle of Mbwila.






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