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Period: Jan 16, 1547 to
Reign of Ivan the Terrible
was Grand Prince of Moscow from 1533 to 1547 and Tsar of All the Russias from 1547 until his death. -
Period: Jul 25, 1554 to
Reign of Philip II
King of England and Ireland and pretender to the kingdom of France. -
Period: Jul 24, 1567 to
Reign of James I
From the union of the English and Scottish crowns on 24 March 1603 until his death. The kingdoms of England and Scotland were individual sovereign states, with their own parliaments, judiciary, and laws, though both were ruled by James in personal union. -
Aug 23, 1572
St. Barholomew's Day Massacre
a targeted group of assassinations, followed by a wave of Roman Catholic mob violence, both directed against the Huguenots (French Calvinist Protestants), during the French Wars of Religion. -
Cardinal Richelieu appointed
A French clergyman, noble and statesman. -
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Reign of Henry of Navarre
One of the most popular French kinds, both during and after his reign. He became the legal heir to the French throne in 1584. -
Signing of the edict of Nantes
granted the Calvinist Protestants of France (also known as Huguenots) substantial rights in a nation still considered essentially Catholic. -
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Reign of Louis XIII
a Bourbon monarch who ruled as King of France and of Navarre (as Louis II until 1620) from 1610 to 1643. -
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Thirty Years War
A series of wars principally fought in Central Europe, involving most of the countries of Europe.[12] It was one of the longest and most destructive conflicts in European history, and one of the longest continuous wars in modern history. -
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Reign of Charles I
King of England, King of Scotland, and King of Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649. Charles engaged in a struggle for power with the Parliament of England, attempting to obtain royal revenue whilst Parliament sought to curb his Royal prerogative which Charles believed was divinely ordained. -
Louis XIV assumes full control of France
During Louis's reign France was the leading European power and fought three major wars: the Franco-Dutch War, the War of the League of Augsburg and the War of the Spanish Succession, as well as two lesser conflicts, the War of Devolution and the War of the Reunions. Louis encouraged and benefited from the work of prominent political, military and cultural figures such as Mazarin, Colbert, Turenne and Vauban, as well as Molière, Racine, Boileau, La Fontaine, Lully, Le Brun, Rigaud, Bossuet, Le Va -
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England Civil War
a series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Parliamentarians (Roundheads) and Royalists (Cavaliers). The first (1642–46) and second (1648–49) civil wars pitted the supporters of King Charles I against the supporters of the Long Parliament, while the third war (1649–51) saw fighting between supporters of King Charles II and supporters of the Rump Parliament. -
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Reign of Louis XIV
A Bourbon monarch who ruled as King of France and Navarre.[1] His reign of 72 years and 110 days is one of the longest in French and European history. -
Peace of Westphalia
A series of peace treaties signed between May and October 1648, these treaties ended the thirty years war. -
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Reign of Oliver Corwnwell
Oliver Cromwell (25 April 1599 – 3 September 1658) was an English military and political leader and later Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland. -
Restoration of English Crown
The Restoration of the English monarchy began in 1660 when the English, Scottish and Irish monarchies were all restored under Charles II after the Interregnum that followed the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. -
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Reign of Peter the Great
Ruled the Tsardom of Russia and later the Russian Empire from 7 May [O.S. 27 April] 1682 until his death, jointly ruling before 1696 with his half-brother. In numerous successful wars he expanded the Tsardom into a huge empire that became a major European power. -
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Palace at Versailless started / ended
A royal château in Versailles in the Île-de-France region of France. In French it is the Château de Versailles. -
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Glorious Revolution
The Glorious Revolution, also called the Revolution of 1688, was the overthrow of King James II of England (James VII of Scotland and James II of Ireland) by a union of English Parliamentarians with the Dutch stadtholder William III of Orange-Nassau (William of Orange). -
English Bill of Rights
The Bill of Rights[1] is an Act of the Parliament of England passed on 16 December 1689. -
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War of Spanish Succession
was fought among several European powers, including a divided Spain, over the feared possible unification of the Kingdoms of Spain and France under one Bourbon monarch. -
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Reign of Frederick the Great
was King in Prussia (1740–1786) from the Hohenzollern dynasty. He is best known for his brilliance in military campaigning and organization of Prussian armies -
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Reign of Maria Theresa
the only female ruler of the Habsburg dominions and the last of the House of Habsburg. She was the sovereign of Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Bohemia, Mantua, Milan, Lodomeria and Galicia, the Austrian Netherlands and Parma.
