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17th Century Timeline

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






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






3. The Portuguese Restoration War led to the end of the Iberian Union.






4. Ren






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






6. Mary II of England dies






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






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






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






10. The Netherlands and Spain agree to a Twelve Years' Truce in the Eighty Years' War.






11. The Great Plague of Seville.






12. The Russian famine of 1601






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






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






15. The Battle of Killiecrankie is fought between Jacobite and Williamite forces in Highland Perthshire






16. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






17. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






18. After his father Shah Jahan completes the Taj Mahal - his son Aurangzeb deposes him as ruler of the Mughal Empire.






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






20. Fronde civil war in France.






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






22. Famine in France kills 2 million.






23. Torture is outlawed in England.






24. The Time of Troubles in Russia ends with the establishment of the House of Romanov which rules until 1917.






25. Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman achieves the first recorded European sighting of New Zealand.






26. Battle of L






27. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






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






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






30. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Bahia in Brazil.






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






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






33. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






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






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






36. The Great Plague of London.






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






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






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






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






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






42. Battle of N






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






44. The Irish Rebellion.






45. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






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






47. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






48. The Siege of Derry.






49. The fortresses of Veszpr






50. Seven-year-old Mehmed IV becomes sultan.