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Treaty of Vienna
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English poet and playwright William Shakespeare dies.
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The Defenestration of Prague
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The Bohemian Revolt precipitates the Thirty Years' War
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The Manchus start invading China
The Manchus start invading China. Their conquest eventually topples the Ming dynasty. -
Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia.
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The Battle of Chocim
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Jamestown massacre
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Battle of Nördlingen
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Harvard University is founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Qing dynasty attacked Joseon dynasty.
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Naval Battle of the Downs
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Wars of the Three Kingdoms
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Beginning of English Civil War
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The Manchu conquer China ending the Ming dynasty.
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The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War
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Ottoman war with Venice
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Ottoman war with Venice. The Ottomans invade Crete and capture Canea.
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The Khmelnytsky Uprising
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The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland
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Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary
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The Battle of St. Gotthard
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Portugal defeats the Kongo Empire at the Battle of Mbwila.
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The War of Devolution
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The Great Turkish War halts the Ottoman Empire's expansion into Europe.
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The Third Anglo-Dutch War fought between England and the United Provinces
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Polish-Ottoman War.
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Franco-Dutch War.
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Russia and the Ottoman Empire commence the Russo-Turkish Wars.
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The Treaty of Nijmegen
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The Pueblo Revolt
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China conquers the Kingdom of Tungning and annexes Taiwan.
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The Glorious Revolution
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The War of the Two Kings in Ireland.
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Bill of Rights
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The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.
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Famine in France kills 2 million
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The Bank of England is established.
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Great Northern War between the Russian and Swedish Empires.
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The War of the Spanish Succession is fought, involving most of continental Europe
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Camisard Rebellion in France.
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The Rákóczi Uprising against the Habsburg Monarchy
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First Javanese War of Succession
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The War of the Spanish Succession
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Ottoman Empire fights Russia in the Russo-Turkish War.
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Tuscarora War between British, Dutch, and German settlers and the Tuscarora people of North Carolina
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The first Jacobite rising breaks out
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Second Javanese War of Succession
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The Great Plague of Marseille.
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The South Sea Bubble
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The Treaty of Nystad is signed
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Russo-Persian War
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The "Great Disaster", an invasion of Kazakh territories by the Dzungars.
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Anglo-Spanish War.
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The First Great Awakening takes place in Great Britain and North America.
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War of the Polish Succession
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Russo-Turkish War.
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The Qianlong Emperor of China oversees a huge expansion in territory.
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Famine across the Sahel; half the population of Timbuktu dies
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Great Britain and Spain fight the War of Jenkins' Ear in the Caribbean.
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War of the Austrian Succession
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The First Saudi State is founded by Mohammed Ibn Saud
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The First Carnatic War
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The Second Carnatic War
The Second Carnatic War is fought between the British, the French, the Marathas, and Mysore in India. -
The French and Indian War
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The Seven Years' War
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he Third Carnatic War
The Third Carnatic War is fought between the British, the French, the Marathas, and Mysore in India. -
Maratha Empire defeated at Battle of Panipat
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The Treaty of Paris
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War of the Bar Confederation
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Russo-Turkish War.
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Famine in Czech lands kills hundreds of thousands
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The Plague Riot in Moscow
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Gustav III of Sweden stages a coup d'état, becoming almost an absolute monarch.
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Pugachev's Rebellion, the largest peasant revolt in Russian history.
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First Anglo-Maratha War.
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American Revolutionary War.
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Xhosa Wars
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The city of Los Angeles is founded by Spanish settlers
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Russo-Turkish Wa
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Russo-Swedish War
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The Liège Revolution
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The Brabant Revolution.
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French Revolution
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The Haitian Revolution
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Polish–Russian War
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The French Revolutionary Wars
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The Hawkesbury and Nepean Wars
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War of the First Coalition
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The White Lotus Rebellion against the Manchu dynasty in China.
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he Irish Rebellion fails to overthrow British rule in Ireland.
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the First Barbary War and the Second Barbary War
the First Barbary War and the Second Barbary War between the United States and the Barbary States of North Africa. -
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Fulani Jihad in Nigeria.
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Russo-Persian War.
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Russo-Turkish War, Treaty of Bucharest.
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Russia conquers Finland from Sweden in the Finnish War.
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The Grito de Dolores begins the Mexican War of Independence.
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Punjab War between the Sikh Empire and British Empire.
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Afghan–Sikh Wars.
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Anglo-Nepalese War between Nepal (Gurkha Empire) and British Empire.
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First Seminole War begins in Florida
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Russia commences its conquest of the Caucasus.
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Revolutions of 1820 in Southern Europe
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Java War
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November Uprising in Poland against Russia
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France invades and occupies Algeria
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Egyptian–Ottoman War.
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Revolutions of 1848
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Crimean War between France, the United Kingdom, the Ottoman Empire and Russia.
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China: Taiping Rebellion
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American Civil War between the Union and seceding Confederacy.
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Austro-Prussian War
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Ten Years' War between Cuba and Spain.
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The Franco-Prussian War
The Franco-Prussian War results in the unifications of Germany and Italy, the collapse of the Second French Empire and the emergence of a New Imperialism.