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17th Century Timeline

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






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






3. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






4. King Charles was compelled to summon Parliament due to the revolt of the Scots.






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






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






7. The Great Plague of Seville.






8. Battle of N






9. Mary II of England dies






10. Lithuanian Civil War






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






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






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






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






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






16. The Great Plague of London.






17. 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.'






18. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






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






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






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






22. The fortresses of Veszpr






23. 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.'






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






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






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






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






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






29. The Russian famine of 1601






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






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






32. Torture is outlawed in England.






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






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






35. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






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






37. The Manchu conquer China ending the Ming Dynasty. The subsequent Qing Dynasty rules until 1912.






38. Mehmed K






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






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






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






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






43. Siamese revolution of 1688 ousted French influence and virtually severed all ties with the West until the 19th century.






44. Naval Battle of the Downs






45. 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.






46. Franco-Dutch War.






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






48. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






49. The Treaty of Zurawno brings Polish-Ottoman hostilities to a halt.






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