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17th Century Timeline

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






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






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






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






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






6. Famine in Finland wipes out almost a third of the population.






7. The Treaty of Zurawno brings Polish-Ottoman hostilities to a halt.






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






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






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






11. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






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






13. 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






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15. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Bahia in Brazil.






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






17. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






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






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






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






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






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






23. The last remaining Moriscos (Moors who had nominally converted to Christianity) in Spain are expelled.






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






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






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






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






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






29. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






30. Aurochs go extinct.






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






32. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






33. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






34. The Ottomans capture Crete.






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






36. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






37. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






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






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






41. The Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth army defeats combined Russian- Swedish forces at the Battle of Klushino and conquers Moscow.






42. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






43. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






44. 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.






45. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






46. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






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






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






49. The Great Plague of London.






50. Pedro de Peralta - governor of New Mexico - establishes the settlement of Santa Fe.







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