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Founding of Jamestown
The very first English colony in the "new world". It was founded by the New Virginia Company. First settlement caused much harder conditions than were expected. -
The Telescope invention
The invention of the telescope played an important role in advancing our understanding of Earth. The telescope was invented in Netherlands. -
Kalmar War
The Kalmar War was a war between Denmark–Norway and Sweden. Though Denmark-Norway soon gained the upper hand, it was unable to defeat Sweden entirely. -
"Thirty Years' War"
The Thirty Year war began as a religious war, it was fought in between the Roman Catholics and Protestants. The actions of the Emperor Ferdinand II in forcing the protestants into Catholicism spiked the political struggles. Lasting from 1618 to 1648 formed the Holy Empire. -
The "first" English Civil War
Was from three distinct armed conflicts and political machinations between Parliamentarians and Royalists. Civil wars pitted the supporters of King Charles I against the supporters of the Long Parliament. -
War of Devolution
Was a local custom governing the inheritance of land in certain provinces of the Spanish Netherlands, by which daughters of a first marriage were preferred to sons of subsequent marriages; and Louis XIV of France began the war on the pretext that this custom should apply to sovereign territories. -
King Philips War
War between a group of indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands and the English New England Colonies and their indigenous allies. -
The Nine Years War
The Nine Years War, also known as the War of the Grand Alliance or War was a conflict between France and the Grand Alliance. While concentrated in Europe, fighting spread to the Americas, India, and West Africa, and it has been called the first ever world war. -
The French and Indian war
The North American chapter of the Seven Years’ War. The fourth colonial war between France and Spain on one side, and Great Britain on the other side, resulted in the British conquest of all of New France of the Mississippi River, as well as Spanish Florida. The outcome was one of the developments in a century of Anglo-French conflict. -
The American Revolutionary War
American War of Independence, began as a war between the Kingdom of Great Britain and thirteen British colonies on the North American continent. Foreign nations, including France and Spain, later allied with the American colonists and still later declared war on Britain.