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17th Century Timeline

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






2. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






3. The Great Plague of Seville.






4. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






5. Torture is outlawed in England.






6. Polish-Ottoman War.






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






8. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






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






10. Mehmed K






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






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






13. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






14. Peace Treaty of Lisbon between Spain and Portugal recognizes Portugal as independent country.






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






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






17. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






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






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






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






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






22. Mehmed K






23. The Irish Rebellion.






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






25. 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






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






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






28. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






29. Mount Vesuvius erupts






30. Mount Vesuvius erupts






31. The Northern Wars cement Sweden's rise as a Great Power.






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






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






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






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






36. Famine in Finland wipes out almost a third of the population.






37. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






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






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






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






41. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






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






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






44. Sultan Mehmed IV - advised by Kara Mustafa - decides to disregard the existing peace treaty with Leopold I - due to expire in 1684.






45. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






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






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






48. Naval Battle of the Downs






49. Elizabeth I of England dies and is succeeded by her cousin King James VI of Scotland - uniting the crowns of Scotland and England.






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







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