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17th Century Timeline

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






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






3. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






4. Naval Battle of the Downs






5. Mehmed K






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






7. Mary II of England dies






8. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






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






10. 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.






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






12. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






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






14. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






15. Polish-Ottoman War.






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






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






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






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






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






21. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






22. Thomas Savery demonstrates his first steam engine to the Royal Society.






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






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






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






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






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






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






29. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






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






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






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






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






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






35. The Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas - the oldest existing university in Asia - established by the Dominican Order in Manila






36. The Ottomans capture Crete.






37. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






38. Lithuanian Civil War






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






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






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






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






43. The Karposh rebellion is crushed in present-day Republic of Macedonia - Skopje is retaken by the Ottoman Turks. Karposh is killed - and the rebels are defeated. Giles Cory was pressed to death during the Salem witch trials in the 1690s






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






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






46. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






47. Lithuanian Civil War






48. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






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






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







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