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17th Century Timeline

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1. Fronde civil war in France.






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






3. Emperor Ferdinand II defeats the Bohemian rebels in the Battle of White Mountain.






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






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






6. The Defenestration of Prague






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






8. Famine in Finland wipes out almost a third of the population.






9. The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.






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






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






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






13. Cape Town founded by the Dutch EastIndia Company in South Africa.






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






15. The Pasha of Buda supports Imre Th






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






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






18. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.






19. The Ottomans make camp at Adrianople.






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






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






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






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






24. The Ottomans capture Crete.






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






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






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






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






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






30. The Karposh rebellion is crushed in present-day Republic of Macedonia - Skopje is retaken by the Ottoman Turks. Karposh is killed - and the rebels are defeated. Giles Cory was pressed to death during the Salem witch trials in the 1690s






31. The Defenestration of Prague






32. Battle of N






33. 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.






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






35. Peace Treaty of Lisbon between Spain and Portugal recognizes Portugal as independent country.






36. Rampjaar in the Netherlands






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






38. Elizabeth I of England dies and is succeeded by her cousin King James VI of Scotland - uniting the crowns of Scotland and England.






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






40. The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France






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






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






43. Gunpowder Plot failed in England.






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






45. Shimabara Rebellion of Japanese Christians - ronin and peasants against Edo.






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






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






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






49. Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.






50. Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.







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