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17th Century Timeline

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






2. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






3. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






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






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






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






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






8. The Irish Rebellion.






9. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






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






11. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






12. Mehmed K






13. The Siege of Derry.






14. The Great Plague of London.






15. The Karposh rebellion is crushed in present-day Republic of Macedonia - Skopje is retaken by the Ottoman Turks. Karposh is killed - and the rebels are defeated. Giles Cory was pressed to death during the Salem witch trials in the 1690s






16. John Evelyn's forestry book - Sylva - is published in England.






17. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






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






19. The Karposh rebellion is crushed in present-day Republic of Macedonia - Skopje is retaken by the Ottoman Turks. Karposh is killed - and the rebels are defeated. Giles Cory was pressed to death during the Salem witch trials in the 1690s






20. Giovanni Battista Pamphili is elected PopeInnocent X at the Papal conclave of 1644.






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






22. Polish-Ottoman War.






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






24. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






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






26. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






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






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






29. Ren






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






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






32. Mary II of England dies






33. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






34. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






35. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






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






37. The Great Fire of London.






38. 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.






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






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






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






42. The Deluge wars leave Polish






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






44. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






45. The Russian famine of 1601






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






47. China conquers the Kingdom of Tungning and annexes Taiwan.






48. 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






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






50. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.