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17th Century Timeline

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1. 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.






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






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






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






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






6. 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.






7. Mount Vesuvius erupts






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






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






10. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






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






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






13. Koxinga captures Taiwan from the Dutch and founds the Kingdom of Tungning which rules until 1683.






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






15. The Deluge wars leave Polish






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






17. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






18. The Hudson's Bay Company is founded in Canada.






19. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






20. Famine in France kills 2 million.






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






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






23. Aurochs go extinct.






24. Mehmed K






25. Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before theInquisition.






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






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






28. Battle of L






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






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






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






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






33. Bethlen Gabor allies with the Ottomans and an invasion of Moldavia takes place. The Polish suffer a disaster at Cecora on the River Prut.






34. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






35. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






36. Maffeo Barberini is elected Pope Urban VIII at the Papal conclave of 1623.






37. Capture of Ormuz; The island of Hormuz was captured by an Anglo-Persian force from Portuguese.






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






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






40. Elizabeth I of England dies and is succeeded by her cousin King James VI of Scotland - uniting the crowns of Scotland and England.






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






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






43. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






44. The Treaty of Nerchinsk established a border between Russia and China.






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






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






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






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






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






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