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17th Century Timeline

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






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






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






4. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






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






6. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






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






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






9. The Siege of Derry.






10. Mary II of England dies






11. The Treaty of Karlowitz ends the Great Turkish War.






12. Dutch EastIndia Company founded. Its success contributes to the Dutch Golden Age.






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






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






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






16. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






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






18. Disagreements between the Farnese and Barberini Pope Urban VIII escalate into the Wars of Castro and last until 1649.






19. Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before theInquisition.






20. The reign of the Kangxi Emperor of China begins.






21. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






22. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






23. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






24. Dutch EastIndia Company founded. Its success contributes to the Dutch Golden Age.






25. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






26. The Treaty of Karlowitz ends the Great Turkish War.






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






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






29. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






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






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






32. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






33. Mehmed K






34. Michael the Brave (first unificator of Romania) - voivode of Wallachia - Moldavia and Transylvania - is assassinated by the order of the Habsburg general Giorgio Basta at C






35. The Deluge wars leave Polish






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






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






38. William ascends to the throne over England - Scotland - and Ireland.






39. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






40. The Defenestration of Prague






41. Polish






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






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






44. Antoni van Leeuwenhoek is the first to observe microbes with a homemade microscope - using samples he collected from his teeth scrapings - raindrops - and his own feces. He calls them 'animalcules.'






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






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






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






48. Captain Willem Janszoon and his crew aboard the Dutch EastIndia Company ship Duyfken becomes the first recorded Europeans to sight and make landfall in Australia.






49. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






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