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17th Century Timeline

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1. St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican completed.






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






3. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






4. New Amsterdam founded by the Dutch WestIndia Company in North America.






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






6. The Deluge wars leave Polish






7. William ascends to the throne over England - Scotland - and Ireland.






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






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






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






11. Aurochs go extinct.






12. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Bahia in Brazil.






13. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






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






15. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






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






17. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






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






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






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






21. Mehmed K






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






23. The Russian famine of 1601






24. Treaty of Vienna ends anti-Habsburg uprising in Royal Hungary.






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






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






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






28. Battle of L






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






30. Lithuanian Civil War






31. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






32. Treaty of Vienna ends anti-Habsburg uprising in Royal Hungary.






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






34. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Bahia in Brazil.






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






36. Torture is outlawed in England.






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






38. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






39. Polish






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






41. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






49. Ren






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







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