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17th Century Timeline

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






2. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






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






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






5. Mehmed K






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






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






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






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






10. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






11. Famine in France kills 2 million.






12. Battle of N






13. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






14. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






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






16. The Russian famine of 1601






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






18. Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the Catholic League.






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






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






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






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






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






24. Sultan Mehmed IV - advised by Kara Mustafa - decides to disregard the existing peace treaty with Leopold I - due to expire in 1684.






25. Maratha Empire founded inIndia by Shivaji.






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






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






28. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






29. 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






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






31. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






32. Naval Battle of the Downs






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






34. Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.






35. Mehmed K






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






37. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






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






39. Mehmed K






40. The Irish Rebellion.






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






42. Wars of the Three Kingdoms - civil wars throughout Scotland - Ireland - and England.






43. Fronde civil war in France.






44. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






45. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






46. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






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






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






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






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