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17th Century Timeline

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






2. The Bohemian Revolt precipitates the Thirty Years' War which devastates Europe in the years 1618






3. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






4. The fortresses of Veszpr






5. The Grand Alliance sought to stop French expansion during the Nine Years War.






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






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






8. Jamestown massacre - Algonquian natives kill 347 English settlers outside Jamestown - Virginia (1/3 of the colony's population) and burn the Henricus settlement.






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






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






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






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






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






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






15. 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.






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






17. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






18. Shimabara Rebellion of Japanese Christians - ronin and peasants against Edo.






19. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






20. The Mughal Empire nearly bans the EastIndia Company in response to pirate Henry Every's capture of the Ganj-i-Sawai






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






22. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






23. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






24. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






25. The Russian famine of 1601






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






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






28. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






29. Mount Vesuvius erupts






30. The Great Turkish War halts the Ottoman Empire's expansion into Europe.






31. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






32. The Ottomans capture Crete.






33. Mount Vesuvius erupts






34. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






35. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






36. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






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






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






39. Abbas I - the Safavids king - died.






40. Japan transforms into 'locked country'.






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






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






43. The Raid on the Medway during the Second Anglo-Dutch War.






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






45. The Bank of England is established.






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






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






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






49. 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.






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