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17th Century Timeline

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






2. 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






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






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






5. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






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






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






9. Fronde civil war in France.






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






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






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






13. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






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






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






16. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






17. The Siege of Derry.






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






19. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






20. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






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






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






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






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






25. Naval Battle of the Downs






26. The Russian famine of 1601






27. Fronde civil war in France.






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






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






30. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






31. Elizabeth I of England dies and is succeeded by her cousin King James VI of Scotland - uniting the crowns of Scotland and England.






32. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






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






34. The Siege of Derry.






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






36. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






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






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






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






40. 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.'






41. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






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






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






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






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






46. Captain Willem Janszoon and his crew aboard the Dutch EastIndia Company ship Duyfken becomes the first recorded Europeans to sight and make landfall in Australia.






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






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






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






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