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17th Century Timeline

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1. The Defenestration of Prague






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






3. The Second Anglo-Dutch War fought between England and the United Provinces.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






11. The 1700 Cascadia earthquake (magnitude 9) occurs off the coast of the Pacific Northwest; Japan is struck by a tsunami.






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






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






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






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






16. The College of William and Mary is founded in Williamsburg - Virginia by a royal charter.






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






18. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






19. 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.






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






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22. The Manchu conquer China ending the Ming Dynasty. The subsequent Qing Dynasty rules until 1912.






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






24. The Russian famine of 1601






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






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






27. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






28. The Great Fire of London.






29. Louis XIV accepts the Spanish crown on behalf of his grandson Philip of Anjou - triggering the War of the Spanish Succession






30. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






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






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






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






35. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






36. The Bank of England is established.






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






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






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






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






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






42. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






43. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






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






45. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






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






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






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50. 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.