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17th Century Timeline

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1. The Defenestration of Prague






2. The Great Plague of London.






3. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






4. Emperor Fasilides expels the Catholic Patriarch Afonso Mendes and several Jesuit missionaries from Ethiopia.






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






6. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






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






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






9. Time of Troubles - Vasili IV becomes Tzar of Russia.






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






11. The Russian famine of 1601






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






13. The Irish Rebellion.






14. Bethlen Gabor - Prince of Transylvania joins Protestant Rebels.






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






16. Ottoman campaign to help the Ukrainian Cossacks. John Sobieski defeats the Ottomans at the second battle of Khotyn (1673).






17. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






18. The Defenestration of Prague






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






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






21. Battle of L






22. Seven-year-old Mehmed IV becomes sultan.






23. 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.






24. Lithuanian Civil War






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






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






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






28. Ottoman campaign to help the Ukrainian Cossacks. John Sobieski defeats the Ottomans at the second battle of Khotyn (1673).






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






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






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






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






33. Mount Vesuvius erupts






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






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






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






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






38. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






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






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






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






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






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






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






45. Tokugawa Ieyasu seizes control of Japan and establishes the Tokugawa Shogunate - beginning the Edo period that lasts until 1869.






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






47. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






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






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






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