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17th Century Timeline

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1. The Bank of England is established.






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






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






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






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






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






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






8. Polish-Ottoman War.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






17. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






18. The Great Fire of London.






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






20. The Defenestration of Prague






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






22. Lithuanian Civil War






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






24. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






25. 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.'






26. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






27. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






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






29. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






30. Ottoman war with Venice. The Ottomans invade Crete and capture Canea.






31. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






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






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






34. The War of Devolution; France invades the Netherlands. The Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle (1668) brings this to a halt.






35. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






36. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






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






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






39. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






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






41. 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






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






43. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






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






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






46. Russia supplants Sweden as the dominant Baltic power after the Great Northern War.






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






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






50. Russia supplants Sweden as the dominant Baltic power after the Great Northern War.