-
The war of Netherlands independence from Spain.
-
English settle Jamestown
-
Invented the first refracting telescope.
-
Series of wars between various Protestant and Catholic states in the fragmented Holy Roman Empire
-
The pilgrims landed at Plymouth Massachusetts.
-
War fought between settlers of the Virginia Colony and Algonquin Indians of the Powhatan Confederacy in the early seventeenth century.
-
The English Civil Wars comprised three wars, which were fought between Charles I and Parliament.
-
Final stage of the struggle over the Polish-Swedish succession.
-
It marked the end of the long-standing Franco-Dutch alliance, and was the first of the French wars of expansion that dominated Europe for the next 50 years.
-
Invented a calculating machine.
-
Third major war of Louis XIV of France, in which his expansionist plans were blocked by an alliance led by Britain, the United Provinces of the Netherlands, and the Austrian Habsburgs.
-
Invented a steam pump.