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1415
Hohenzollerns established in Brandenburg
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Period: 1533 to
Ivan IV the Terrible
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1569
Merger of Poland and Lithuania
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Period: 1580 to
Plays of Shakespeare
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Period: to
Sigismund III
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Period: to
Christian IV (Denmark)
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Philip III (Spain)
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Time of Troubles
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James I
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Protestant Union
A league of German Protestant states that was under the leader of the Elector Palatine Frederick IV (a military alliance among Protestant German states for mutual protection against the rising power of Roman Catholic states from the Counter-Reformation Europe) --> Catholic League of German states created to counter it -
Catholic League
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Hohenzollerns acquire lands along the Rhine
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Louis XIII
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Period: to
Gustavus Adolphus
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Michael Romanov
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Election of Habsburg Archduke Ferdinand as king of Bohemia
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Bohemian revolt against Ferdinand
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Hohenzollerns acquire East Prussia
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Bohemian Phase
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Battle of White Mountain
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Period: to
Philip IV (Spain)
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Spanish conquest of Palatinate
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Period: to
Cardinal Richelieu as chief minister
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Charles I (of England)
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Period: to
Danish phase
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Paintings of Rembrandt
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Petition of Right
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Edict of Restitution
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Swedish phase
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Battle of Lutzen
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Battle of Nordlingen
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Franco-Swedish phase
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Frederick William the Great Elector
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Ministry of Cardinal Mazarin
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First Civil War
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Battle of Rocroi
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Louis XIV
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Peace of Westphalia
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Official recognition of United Provinces
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Second Civil War
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First Fronde
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Executions of Charles I
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Period: to
Commonwealth
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Second Fronde
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Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
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Beginning of liberum veto
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Charles X (Sweden)
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Death of Cromwell
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Period: to
Leopold I (Austrian Empire)
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Peace of the Pyrenees
The war in Germany officially ended by the Peace of Westphalia but the war between France and Spain did not stop until the Peace of the Pyrenees -
‘‘Bloodless Revolution’’
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Restoration of mnarchy
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Period: to
Charles XI (Sweden)
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Period: to
Charles II
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Cavalier Parliament
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Plays of Racine
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First war (versus Triple Alliance)
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Declaration of Indulgence
Suspended laws that Parliament had passed against Catholics and Puritans -
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Dutch War
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William III (House of Orange)
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Test Act
An act passed by Parliament that said only Anglicans could hold military and civil offices -
Turkish siege of Vienna
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Edict of Fontainebleau
Recanted the edict of Nantes and allowed the destruction of Huguenots churches and the closing of Protestant schools and also prohibited Huguenots from leaving France (though ~200,000 Huguenots left and sought asylum in England, United Provinces, and German states) -
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James II
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Declaration of Indulgence (by James II)
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Glorious Revolution
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Period: to
Elector Frederick III (King Frederick I)
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Bill of Rights
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John Locke, Two Treatises of Government
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Peter the Great
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War of the League of Augsburg
A war against Spain, HRE, United Provinces, Sweden, and England --> brought economic depression and famine to France -
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First trip to the West
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Charles XII
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Treaty of Karlowitz
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Great Northern War
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War of the Spanish Sucession
War for the succession to the Spanish throne; England, United Provinces, Habsburg Austria, and German states worried that this would upset Europe's balance of power --> End: Austria gains Spanish Netherlands, Milan, Manuta, Sardinia , and Naples -
Construction of Saint Petersburg Begins
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Battle of Poltava