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17th Century Timeline

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1. The Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas - the oldest existing university in Asia - established by the Dominican Order in Manila






2. The Manchus start invading China. Their conquest eventually topples the Ming Dynasty.






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






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






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






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






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






8. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






9. 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.






10. Flight of the Earls (the fleeing of most of the native Gaelic aristocracy) occurs from County Donegal in the west of Ulster in Ireland.






11. The fortresses of Veszpr






12. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






13. The Defenestration of Prague






14. English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.






15. The Irish Rebellion.






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






17. Lithuanian Civil War






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






19. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






20. The Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas - the oldest existing university in Asia - established by the Dominican Order in Manila






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






22. Mount Vesuvius erupts






23. Cardinal Richelieu allies with Swedish Protestant forces in the Thirty Years' War to counter Ferdinand II's expansion.






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






25. The death of Miyamoto Musashi - legendary Japanese Samurai warrior - of natural causes.






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






27. Quebec City founded by Samuel de Champlain in New France (present-day Canada).






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






29. 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.






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






31. The College of William and Mary is founded in Williamsburg - Virginia by a royal charter.






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






33. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






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






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






36. Robert Hooke discovers cells using a microscope.






37. The Dutch WestIndia Company invades the Portuguese colony of Pernambuco and founds Dutch Brazil.






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






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






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






41. China conquers the Kingdom of Tungning and annexes Taiwan.






42. 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.'






43. The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.






44. Polish-Ottoman War.






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






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






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






48. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






49. The Northern Wars cement Sweden's rise as a Great Power.






50. Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside Vienna.