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17th Century Timeline

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1. Cape Town founded by the Dutch EastIndia Company in South Africa.






2. The Great Plague of London.






3. The Defenestration of Prague






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






5. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






6. Mount Vesuvius erupts






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






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






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






10. Naval Battle of the Downs






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






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






13. The Great Plague of Seville.






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






15. 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.'






16. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






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






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






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






20. Polish-Ottoman War.






21. Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before theInquisition.






22. The Russian famine of 1601






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






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






25. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






26. Battle of Kinsale - one of the most important battles in Irish history - fought.






27. Cape Town founded by the Dutch EastIndia Company in South Africa.






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






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






30. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






31. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






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






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






34. Jamestown massacre - Algonquian natives kill 347 English settlers outside Jamestown - Virginia (1/3 of the colony's population) and burn the Henricus settlement.






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






36. Jamestown massacre - Algonquian natives kill 347 English settlers outside Jamestown - Virginia (1/3 of the colony's population) and burn the Henricus settlement.






37. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






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






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






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






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






42. Mehmed K






43. France takes full political and military control over its colonial possessions in New France.






44. The Irish Rebellion.






45. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






46. The Second Anglo-Dutch War fought between England and the United Provinces.






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






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






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






50. The Siege of Derry.