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17th Century Timeline

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1. Cardinal Richelieu lays siege to Protestant La Rochelle which eventually capitulates.






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






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






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






5. Lithuanian Civil War






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






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






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






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






10. William ascends to the throne over England - Scotland - and Ireland.






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






12. Battle of N






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






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






15. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






16. Torture is outlawed in England.






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






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






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






20. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






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






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






23. Lithuanian Civil War






24. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






25. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






35. Ottoman war with Venice. The Ottomans invade Crete and capture Canea.






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






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






38. 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.






39. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






40. The Russian famine of 1601






41. The Manchu conquer China ending the Ming Dynasty. The subsequent Qing Dynasty rules until 1912.






42. Polish-Ottoman War.






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






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






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






46. Polish-Ottoman War.






47. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






48. The Great Plague of London.






49. Battle of N






50. The Defenestration of Prague