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Period: 1568 to
Eighty Years' War
The war of Netherlands independence from Spain. -
Jamestown
English settle Jamestown -
Hans Lipperhey
Invented the first refracting telescope. -
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Thirty Years' War
Series of wars between various Protestant and Catholic states in the fragmented Holy Roman Empire -
Plymouth, Ma
The pilgrims landed at Plymouth Massachusetts. -
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Powhatan War
War fought between settlers of the Virginia Colony and Algonquin Indians of the Powhatan Confederacy in the early seventeenth century. -
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English Civil Wars
The English Civil Wars comprised three wars, which were fought between Charles I and Parliament. -
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First Northern War
Final stage of the struggle over the Polish-Swedish succession. -
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War of Devolution
It marked the end of the long-standing Franco-Dutch alliance, and was the first of the French wars of expansion that dominated Europe for the next 50 years. -
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Invented a calculating machine. -
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War of the Grand Alliance
Third major war of Louis XIV of France, in which his expansionist plans were blocked by an alliance led by Britain, the United Provinces of the Netherlands, and the Austrian Habsburgs. -
Thomas Savery
Invented a steam pump.