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17th Century Timeline

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1. The Battle of Chocim - Poles and Cossacks under Jan Karol Chodkiewicz defeat the Ottomans.






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






3. Elizabeth I of England dies and is succeeded by her cousin King James VI of Scotland - uniting the crowns of Scotland and England.






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






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






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






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






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






9. The Russian famine of 1601






10. The fortresses of Veszpr






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






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






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






14. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






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






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






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






18. 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






19. The Great Plague of Seville.






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






21. The Bank of England is established.






22. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






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






24. The Russian famine of 1601






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26. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






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






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






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






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






31. Koxinga captures Taiwan from the Dutch and founds the Kingdom of Tungning which rules until 1683.






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






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






34. The death of Miyamoto Musashi - legendary Japanese Samurai warrior - of natural causes.






35. 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.






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






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






38. 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






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






40. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






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






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






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






44. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






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






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






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






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






49. The Deluge wars leave Polish






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