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17th Century Timeline

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






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






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






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






5. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.






6. 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.






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






8. TheFirst Anglo-Dutch War begins.






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






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






12. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






13. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






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






15. John Locke publishes his first 'Letter Concerning Toleration'.






16. The Siege of Derry.






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






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






19. Franco-Dutch War.






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






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






22. Mount Vesuvius erupts






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






24. Jacques Aymar-Vernay - who later reintroduced Dowsing into popular use in Europe - is born.






25. Bethlen Gabor - Prince of Transylvania joins Protestant Rebels.






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






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






28. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






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






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31. Torture is outlawed in England.






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






33. Naval Battle of the Downs






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






35. 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.






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






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38. Michael the Brave (first unificator of Romania) - voivode of Wallachia - Moldavia and Transylvania - is assassinated by the order of the Habsburg general Giorgio Basta at C






39. Harvard University is founded in Cambridge - Massachusetts.






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






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






42. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






43. Taj Mahal building work started in Agra -India






44. Aurochs go extinct.






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






46. St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican completed.






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48. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






49. Emperor Fasilides founds the city of Gondar - which becomes the capital of Ethiopia for the next two centuries.






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







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