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17th Century Timeline

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






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






3. The Defenestration of Prague






4. Franco-Dutch War.






5. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






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






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






8. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






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






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






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






12. As chief minister - Cardinal Richelieu centralises power in France.






13. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






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






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






16. 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.






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






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19. The Great Turkish War halts the Ottoman Empire's expansion into Europe.






20. The Peace of Westphalia ends the Thirty Years' War and the Eighty Years' War and marks the ends of Spain and the Holy Roman Empire as major European powers.






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






22. The Ottomans capture Crete.






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






24. Emperor Fasilides expels the Catholic Patriarch Afonso Mendes and several Jesuit missionaries from Ethiopia.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






33. Battle of L






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






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






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






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






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






40. 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






41. The Siege of Derry.






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






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






44. Russia and the Ottoman Empire commence the Russo-Turkish Wars.






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






46. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






47. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






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






49. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






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