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17th Century Timeline

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






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






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






4. The Brownist Pilgrims arrive in the Mayflower at Cape Cod






5. Famine in France kills 2 million.






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






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






8. Fronde civil war in France.






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






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






11. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






12. Beginning of English Civil War - conflict will end in 1651 with the execution of King Charles I - abolishment of the monarchy and the establishment of the supremacy of Parliament over the king.






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






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






15. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






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






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






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






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






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






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






22. Mary II of England dies






23. Fronde civil war in France.






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






25. Quebec City founded by Samuel de Champlain in New France (present-day Canada).






26. Quebec City founded by Samuel de Champlain in New France (present-day Canada).






27. The College of William and Mary is founded in Williamsburg - Virginia by a royal charter.






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






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






30. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






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






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






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






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






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






37. 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.






38. 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






39. 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.'






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






41. The Russian famine of 1601






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






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






44. The Great Plague of London.






45. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






46. The Bank of England is established.






47. The Siege of Derry.






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






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






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