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17th Century Timeline

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1. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






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






3. Russia supplants Sweden as the dominant Baltic power after the Great Northern War.






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






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






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






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






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






9. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






15. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






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






17. Naval Battle of the Downs






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






19. Disagreements between the Farnese and Barberini Pope Urban VIII escalate into the Wars of Castro and last until 1649.






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






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






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






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






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






25. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






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






27. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






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






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






30. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






31. The Irish Rebellion.






32. Battle of N






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






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






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






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






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






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






39. Naval Battle of the Downs






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






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






42. Pedro de Peralta - governor of New Mexico - establishes the settlement of Santa Fe.






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






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






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






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






47. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






48. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






49. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






50. Louis XIV accepts the Spanish crown on behalf of his grandson Philip of Anjou - triggering the War of the Spanish Succession