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1555 Peace of Augsburg
200-year-long period in Roman history which is identified with increased and sustained inner hegemonic peace and stability. He introduced a number of moral and political reforms in order to improve Roman society -
1562
1562 French wars of religion begin
Is the name of a period of civil infighting and military operations primarily between French Catholics and Protestants. It was in the kingdom of France between 1562 to 1598. -
1566
1566 Ottoman sultan suleyman I dies
Died September 6, 1566, Szigetvár, Hungary. Commonly known as Suleiman the Magnificent in the West and Kanunî Sultan Süleyman in his realm. -
1588 England defeats the Spanish armada
France, Spain's Armada is defeated by an English naval force under the command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake. Armada was a Hapsburg Spanish fleet of 130 ships that sailed from Corunna in late May 1588, -
1588 Shah abbas becomes ruler of persian safavid dynasty
n 1588, one of the Qizilbash leaders, Murshid Qoli Khan, overthrew Shah Mohammed in a coup and placed the 16-year-old Abbas on the throne. His reign saw the flowering of the Safavid as a great synthesis of the Ottoman, Persian, and Arab worlds. -
1598 Henry IV issued the Edict of Nantes
Signed in April 1598 by King Henry IV of France, granted the Calvinist Protestants of France. Substantial rights in the nation, which was still considered essentially Catholic at the time. -
1600 Victory at battle of Sekigahara establishes Tokugawa control of Japan
Moment in which Tokugawa Ieyasu and his supporters defeated their rivals. Toyotomi Hideyoshi completed the unification of Japan, carrying on the work ... Victory at the Battle of Sekigahara allowed Tokugawa Ieyasu to seize control of the country. -
1603 Tokugawa shogunate begins in japan
Tokugawa Ieyasu established his capital at Edo, a small fishing village on the marshes of the Kanto plain. The village would later become the city known as Tokyo. -
1618 start of thirty years of war
The Thirty Years War was a 17th century religious conflict fought primarily in central Europe.The war lasted from 1618 to 1648, starting as a battle among the Catholic and Protestant states that formed the Holy Roman Empire. -
1630 English found massachusetts bay colony
settled in 1630 by a group of about 1,000 Puritan refugees from England. Among the communities that the Puritans established were Boston, Charlestown, Dorchester, Medford, Watertown, Roxbury, and Lynn. -
1661 Louis XIV begins absolutist rule in France
In the age of absolutism in Europe, Louis XIV's France was a leader in the growing centralization of power.Louis also enforced uniformity of religion under the Catholic Church. -
1682 La salle claims mississippi valley for france
French explorer, Rene-Robert Cavelier de La Salle, sailed from the Great Lakes up the St. Lawrence River, through the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico, to the mouth of the Mississippi River in 1682. There he raised a French flag and claimed all the lands drained by the Mississippi for France. -
1690 John Locke publishes Two treatises of government
were written to justify the Glorious Revolution of 1688–89. Was written with a plain and easy urbanity, in contrast to the baroque eloquence of Hobbes. -
1715 Louis XIV dies
He died September 1, 1715, Palace of Versailles. Louis the Great or the Sun King, was King of France from 14 May 1643 until his death in 1715. His reign of 72 years and 110 days is the longest recorded of any monarch of a sovereign country in European history. -
1739 Delhi, in Mogul India, is destroyed by Persians
was the founder of the Afsharid dynasty of Persia, invaded Northern India. His army had easily defeated the Mughals at the battle at Karnal and would eventually capture the Mughal capital in the aftermath of the battle.
