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Captain Bartholomew Gosnold
He captained the Godspeed, one of the three ships that sailed to Virginia in 1606. He was the first Englishman on the East coast -
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Oliver Cromwell
He was an English military and political leader of the Parliamentarians during the English civil war. After the defeat of the monarchy, he became Lord Protector. He was a follower of a puritanical Protestantism. -
Scientific Revolution Begins
The scientific method is developed; Galileo proves solar-centred universe; William Harvey studies human circulation. -
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Thirty Years' War
This war was caused because of a religious conflict fought mainly in Europe. It is has remained to be one of the longest and most brutal wars in human history. It had more than 8 million deaths being caused by military battles as well as disease. -
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English Civil War
This was a series of civil wars and political machinations between Parliamentarians and Royalist, mostly over the manner of England's governance and issues of religious freedom. -
Peace of Westphalia
This brought an end to the Eighty Years' War between the Spain, the Dutch, and the German phase of the Thirty Years' War.