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6 giorni fa · James I, king of Scotland (as James VI) from 1567 to 1625 and first Stuart king of England from 1603 to 1625, who styled himself ‘king of Great Britain.’. He was a strong advocate of royal absolutism, and his conflicts with Parliament set the stage for the rebellion against his successor, Charles I.
- Robert Carr, Earl of Somerset
Meanwhile, he had fallen in love with Frances Howard, wife...
- Richard Bancroft
Richard Bancroft (baptized Sept. 12, 1544, Farnworth,...
- George Buchanan
George Buchanan (born February 1506, Killearn,...
- Sir Walter Raleigh
Sir Walter Raleigh was a Scottish man of letters and critic...
- Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley
Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley (born Dec. 7, 1545, Temple...
- Anne of Denmark
The daughter of King Frederick II of Denmark and Norway,...
- Elizabeth Stuart
Elizabeth Stuart (born August 19, 1596, Falkland Palace,...
- Robert Carr, Earl of Somerset
15 ore fa · In July 1620, the Protestant Union proclaimed its neutrality, while John George of Saxony backed Ferdinand in return for the cession of Lusatia, and a guarantee of Lutheran rights in Bohemia. Maximilian of Bavaria funded a combined Imperial-Catholic League army led by Count Tilly and Charles of Bucquoy , which pacified Upper and Lower Austria ...
3 giorni fa · 1620 1621 Polish–Ottoman War (1620–1621) Poland-Lithuania Ottoman Empire: 1621 1621 Dutch conquest of the Banda Islands: Dutch East India Company: Banda natives 1621 1625 Polish–Swedish War (1621–1625) Sweden: Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth: 1621 1635 Mughal–Sikh War (1621–35) Sikh militia: Mughal Empire: 1622 1623 ...
9 mag 2024 · Thirty Years’ War (1618–48), in European history, a series of wars fought by various nations for various reasons, including religious, dynastic, territorial, and commercial rivalries. Its destructive campaigns and battles occurred over most of Europe, and, when it ended, the map of Europe had been irrevocably changed.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Though the struggles of the Thirty Years War erupted some years earlier, the war is conventionally held to have begun in 1618, when the future Holy...
- The Thirty Years’ War was a series of wars fought by various nations for various reasons, including religious, dynastic, territorial, and commercia...
- Ferdinand II, the Holy Roman emperor (1619–37) and the king of Bohemia, was the leading champion of the Roman Catholic Counter-Reformation and abso...
- The Thirty Years' War ended with the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648, which changed the map of Europe irrevocably. The peace was negotiated, from 1644...
- Near the beginning of the Thirty Years' War in 1625, King Christian IV of Denmark saw an opportunity to gain valuable territory in Germany to balan...
15 mag 2024 · Pilgrim Fathers, in American colonial history, settlers of Plymouth, Massachusetts, the first permanent colony in New England (1620). Of the 102 colonists, 35 were members of the English Separatist Church (a radical faction of Puritanism) who had earlier fled to Leiden, the Netherlands, to escape persecution at home.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
2 giorni fa · The first of these people, known as the Pilgrims, landed on Plymouth Rock in November 1620. Continuous waves of repression led to the migration of about 20,000 Puritans to New England between 1629 and 1642, where they founded multiple colonies .
7 mag 2024 · In 1607 most of England’s population was rural, living in manorial villages and on the farmsteads of large estates, spread out across the countryside. There were few towns as large as 1,000 people. Apart from the capital, Bristol and Norwich were the only “big” towns. Wealth lay in the land; living lay in farming it.
