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17th Century Timeline

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






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






3. Battle of N






4. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






5. Battle of L






6. Torture is outlawed in England.






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






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






9. The Manchus start invading China. Their conquest eventually topples the Ming Dynasty.






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






11. Peter the Great becomes joint ruler of Russia (sole tsar in 1696).






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






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






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






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






16. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






17. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






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






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






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






21. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






22. Ren






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






30. The Bank of England is established.






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






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






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






34. Naval Battle of the Downs






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






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






37. Polish-Ottoman War.






38. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






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






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






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






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






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






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






45. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






46. Fronde civil war in France.






47. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






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






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






50. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India







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