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17th Century Timeline

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






2. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Pernambuco and founds Dutch Brazil.






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






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






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






6. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






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






8. Bethlen Gabor allies with the Ottomans and an invasion of Moldavia takes place. The Polish suffer a disaster at Cecora on the River Prut.






9. Famine in France kills 2 million.






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






11. Maffeo Barberini is elected Pope Urban VIII at the Papal conclave of 1623.






12. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






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






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






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






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






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






18. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






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






20. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






21. Polish






22. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






23. The Treaty of Zurawno brings Polish-Ottoman hostilities to a halt.






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






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






26. La Salle explores the length of the Mississippi River and claims Louisiana for France.






27. 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






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






29. Polish-Ottoman War.






30. The Raid on the Medway during the Second Anglo-Dutch War.






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






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






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






34. The Russian famine of 1601






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






36. The Battle of Killiecrankie is fought between Jacobite and Williamite forces in Highland Perthshire






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






38. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






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






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






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






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






43. Jacques Aymar-Vernay - who later reintroduced Dowsing into popular use in Europe - is born.






44. Lithuanian Civil War






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






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






47. Jacques Aymar-Vernay - who later reintroduced Dowsing into popular use in Europe - is born.






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






49. The Ottomans capture Crete.






50. Naval Battle of the Downs