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17th Century Timeline

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1. Shimabara Rebellion of Japanese Christians - ronin and peasants against Edo.






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






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






4. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






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






6. Aurochs go extinct.






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






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






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






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






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






12. The Deluge wars leave Polish






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






14. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






15. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






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






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






18. The Great Fire of London.






19. Russia supplants Sweden as the dominant Baltic power after the Great Northern War.






20. Lithuanian Civil War






21. The Great Turkish War halts the Ottoman Empire's expansion into Europe.






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






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






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






25. The Commonwealth of England ends and the monarchy is brought back during the English Restoration.






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






27. 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






28. 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.






29. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






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






31. Polish-Ottoman War.






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






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






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






35. Aurochs go extinct.






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






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






38. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






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






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






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






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






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






44. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






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






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






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






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






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






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