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May 9, 2024 · Thirty Years’ War, (1618–48), in European history, a series of wars fought by various nations for various reasons, including religious, dynastic, territorial, and commercial rivalries. Its destructive campaigns and battles occurred over most of Europe, and, when it ended with the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648, the map of Europe had been ...
Abstract. The Austrian nobility is here to be understood as the nobility of the Habsburg hereditary territories of Upper and Lower Austria, Styria, Carinthia and Carniola. Salzburg will not be discussed, because until 1803 it was an independent ecclesiastical principality which anyway lacked any important noble estate; nor will the Tyrol and ...
May 1 – Charles II repudiates his alliance with Irish Catholics in favour of one with Scottish Covenanters in the Treaty of Breda. Most English Royalists in Ireland surrender to the Parliamentarians after this point. May 10 – Battle of Macroom: Irish force defeated by English Parliamentarians. May 17 – Siege of Clonmel: Cromwell's troops ...
World History 1625-1650 AD. 1626 AD Battle of Dessau -One of the major battes of the Thirty Years War took place at the Battle of Dessau, in present day Germany. Catholic forces led by Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius Von Waldstien defeated the Count Mansfield and the Protestant forces. Mansfield retreated to Hungary. 1627 AD Manchus Invade Korea - The ...
Oct 1, 2008 · In China, the number of major armed uprisings rose from under ten in the 1610s to more than seventy in the 1620s and more than eighty in the 1630s, affecting 160 counties and involving well over 1 million people. 2 In Japan, some forty revolts (hōki) and two hundred lesser rural uprisings (hyakushō ikki) occurred between 1590 and 1642—a ...
New York Under Dutch Rule. In the 16th century, the great powers of Europe asserted the right to establish colonies on the other continents of the world based on international law claims of “first discovery and occupation.”. On September 11, 1609, the Dutch ship, the Halve Maen, entered New York Bay and sailed up the mighty river it found ...
Charles I (19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649) was King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649.. Charles was born into the House of Stuart as the second son of King James VI of Scotland, but after his father inherited the English throne in 1603, he moved to England, where he spent much of the rest of his life.
