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17th Century Timeline

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






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






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






4. The Time of Troubles in Russia ends with the establishment of the House of Romanov which rules until 1917.






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






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






7. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






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






9. The Battle of St. Gotthard - Count Raimondo Montecuccoli defeats the Ottomans. The Peace of Vasvar






10. The Russian famine of 1601






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






12. The Deluge wars leave Polish






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






14. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






15. After modernizing his army - Abbas I expands the Persian Empire by capturing territory from the Ottomans and the Portuguese.






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






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






18. The Ottomans capture Crete.






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






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






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






22. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






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






24. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






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






26. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






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






28. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






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






30. After modernizing his army - Abbas I expands the Persian Empire by capturing territory from the Ottomans and the Portuguese.






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






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






33. The fortresses of Veszpr






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






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






36. Fronde civil war in France.






37. The Ottomans capture Crete.






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






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






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






41. The Glorious Revolution starts with the Dutch Republic invading England - England becomes a constitutional monarchy.






42. China conquers the Kingdom of Tungning and annexes Taiwan.






43. 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.'






44. The Glorious Revolution starts with the Dutch Republic invading England - England becomes a constitutional monarchy.






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






46. The Hudson's Bay Company is founded in Canada.






47. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






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






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






50. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.