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17th Century Timeline

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






2. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






3. Russia and the Ottoman Empire commence the Russo-Turkish Wars.






4. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






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






6. Ottoman campaign to help the Ukrainian Cossacks. John Sobieski defeats the Ottomans at the second battle of Khotyn (1673).






7. The Commonwealth of England ends and the monarchy is brought back during the English Restoration.






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






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






10. The fortresses of Veszpr






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






18. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






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






20. Ren






21. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






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






23. 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.'






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






25. Mary II of England dies






26. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.






27. Russia and the Ottoman Empire commence the Russo-Turkish Wars.






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






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






30. Lithuanian Civil War






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






32. Mount Vesuvius erupts






33. Polish-Ottoman War.






34. The Brownist Pilgrims arrive in the Mayflower at Cape Cod






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






36. Cardinal Richelieu lays siege to Protestant La Rochelle which eventually capitulates.






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






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






39. Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge founded.






40. The Russian famine of 1601






41. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






42. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






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






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






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






46. The Defenestration of Prague






47. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






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






49. The Commonwealth of England ends and the monarchy is brought back during the English Restoration.






50. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu