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17th Century Timeline

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1. King Charles was compelled to summon Parliament due to the revolt of the Scots.






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






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






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






5. Disagreements between the Farnese and Barberini Pope Urban VIII escalate into the Wars of Castro and last until 1649.






6. The Defenestration of Prague






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






8. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






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






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






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






12. Shimabara Rebellion of Japanese Christians - ronin and peasants against Edo.






13. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






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






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






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






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18. The Mughal Empire nearly bans the EastIndia Company in response to pirate Henry Every's capture of the Ganj-i-Sawai






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






20. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






21. 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.






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






23. The Ottomans capture Crete from the Venetians after the Siege of Candia.






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






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






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






27. Fronde civil war in France.






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






29. The Grand Alliance sought to stop French expansion during the Nine Years War.






30. Famine in France kills 2 million.






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






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






33. The fortresses of Veszpr






34. 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






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






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






37. Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman achieves the first recorded European sighting of New Zealand.






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






39. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






40. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






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






42. Aurochs go extinct.






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






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






45. After his father Shah Jahan completes the Taj Mahal - his son Aurangzeb deposes him as ruler of the Mughal Empire.






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






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






48. Edict of Fontainebleau outlaws Protestantism in France. King Charles II dies






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






50. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.