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17th Century Timeline

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






2. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






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






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






5. The Siege of Derry.






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






7. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






8. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






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






10. English Civil War ends with the Parliamentarian victory at the Battle of Worcester.






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






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






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






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






17. 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.






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






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






20. The Portuguese Restoration War led to the end of the Iberian Union.






21. The Deluge wars leave Polish






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23. The Great Plague of Seville.






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






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26. China conquers the Kingdom of Tungning and annexes Taiwan.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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34. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






35. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






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






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






38. Torture is outlawed in England.






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






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






41. The Irish Rebellion.






42. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






43. The Treaty of Westminster ends the war between England and the Republic of the United Provinces.






44. Franco-Dutch War.






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






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






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






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






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






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