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17th Century Timeline

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1. The Great Plague of Seville.






2. The Great Plague of London.






3. Jamestown - Virginia - is settled as what would become the first permanent English colony in North America.






4. Aurochs go extinct.






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






6. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






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






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






9. The Ottomans capture Crete from the Venetians after the Siege of Candia.






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






11. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






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






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






14. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






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






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






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






18. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






19. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






20. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






21. Wars of the Three Kingdoms - civil wars throughout Scotland - Ireland - and England.






22. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






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






24. Polish






25. Koxinga captures Taiwan from the Dutch and founds the Kingdom of Tungning which rules until 1683.






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






27. Koxinga captures Taiwan from the Dutch and founds the Kingdom of Tungning which rules until 1683.






28. The earliest known first-class cricket match took place in Sussex.






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






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






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






32. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






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






34. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






35. The Siege of Derry.






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






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






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






39. Battle of N






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






41. Fronde civil war in France.






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






43. Emperor Fasilides founds the city of Gondar - which becomes the capital of Ethiopia for the next two centuries.






44. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






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






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






47. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






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






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






50. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France