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17th Century Timeline

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1. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






2. Torture is outlawed in England.






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






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






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






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






7. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






8. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






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






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






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






12. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






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






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






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






16. The Battle of Vienna finishes the Ottoman Empire's hegemony in south-eastern Europe.






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






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






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






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






21. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






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






23. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






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






25. Polish






26. Siamese revolution of 1688 ousted French influence and virtually severed all ties with the West until the 19th century.






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






28. 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.'






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






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






31. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






32. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






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






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






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






36. 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






37. Mehmed K






38. Quebec City founded by Samuel de Champlain in New France (present-day Canada).






39. Naval Battle of the Downs






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






41. Lithuanian Civil War






42. The Great Fire of London.






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






45. The Manchus start invading China. Their conquest eventually topples the Ming Dynasty.






46. The Defenestration of Prague






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






48. Franco-Dutch War.






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






50. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.