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17th Century Timeline

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1. Sultan Mehmed IV - advised by Kara Mustafa - decides to disregard the existing peace treaty with Leopold I - due to expire in 1684.






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






3. Polish






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






5. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






6. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






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






8. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






9. Emperor Ferdinand II defeats the Bohemian rebels in the Battle of White Mountain.






10. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






11. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






12. The 1700 Cascadia earthquake (magnitude 9) occurs off the coast of the Pacific Northwest; Japan is struck by a tsunami.






13. The Defenestration of Prague






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






15. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






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






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






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






19. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






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






21. Fronde civil war in France.






22. 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






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






24. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






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






26. Polish-Ottoman War.






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






28. The Russian famine of 1601






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






30. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






31. 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






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






33. The Bank of England is established.






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






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






36. Mount Vesuvius erupts






37. The Russian famine of 1601






38. The Deluge wars leave Polish






39. 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






40. The Irish Rebellion.






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






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






43. Battle of N






44. The Second Anglo-Dutch War fought between England and the United Provinces.






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






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






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






48. Capture of Ormuz; The island of Hormuz was captured by an Anglo-Persian force from Portuguese.






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






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







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