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17th Century Timeline

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






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






3. The fortresses of Veszpr






4. Naval Battle of the Downs






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






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






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






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






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






10. Mehmed K






11. Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.






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






13. The Hudson's Bay Company is founded in Canada.






14. Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.






15. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






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






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






18. Captain Willem Janszoon and his crew aboard the Dutch EastIndia Company ship Duyfken becomes the first recorded Europeans to sight and make landfall in Australia.






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






20. The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.






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






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






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






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






25. Death of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu






26. Battle of N






27. King Charles was compelled to summon Parliament due to the revolt of the Scots.






28. Famine in France kills 2 million.






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






30. Giovanni Battista Pamphili is elected PopeInnocent X at the Papal conclave of 1644.






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






32. The Mughal Empire nearly bans the EastIndia Company in response to pirate Henry Every's capture of the Ganj-i-Sawai






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






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






35. Mary II of England dies






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






37. The reign of the Kangxi Emperor of China begins.






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






39. Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of Transylvania.






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






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






42. Franco-Dutch War.






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






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






45. English Civil War ends with the Parliamentarian victory at the Battle of Worcester.






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






47. The Deluge wars leave Polish






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






49. The Hudson's Bay Company is founded in Canada.






50. Polish-Ottoman War.







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