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1642–1651 English Civil War. 1642–1646 First English Civil War; 1648–1649 Second English Civil War; 1649–1651 Third English Civil War; 1649–1653 Cromwellian conquest of Ireland; 1640–1668 Spanish-Portuguese War – 80,000 killed in action [1] 1648–1659 Franco-Spanish War – 108,000 killed in action [1] 1648–1657 Khmelnytsky ...
A French satirical cartoon map of Europe in 1870. The European Civil War is a concept meant to characterize a series of 19th- and early 20th-century conflicts in Europe as segments of an overarching civil war within a supposed European society. The timeframes associated with this European Civil War vary among historians.
21 March, Battle of Stow-on-the-Wold the last pitched battle of the First Civil War is a victory for the New Model Army; 13 April, Siege of Exeter ended with the surrender of Royalist garrison. 5 May, Charles surrendered to a Scottish army at Southwell, Nottinghamshire; 6 May, Newark fell to the Parliamentarians
The timeline of wars has been split up in the following periods: List of wars: before 1000; List of wars: 1000–1499; List of wars: 1500–1799; List of wars: 1800–1899; List of wars: 1900–1944; List of wars: 1945–1989; List of wars: 1990–2002; List of wars: 2003–present
Provisional Government of the French Republic – 1945-1949: ... to the German Confederation following the 1866 Austro-Prussian War: ... is a map Europe, circa 1861.
1642: English Civil War begins see Timeline of the English Civil War and Wars of the Three Kingdoms; 1652–54: First Anglo-Dutch War [20] 1654–60: Anglo-Spanish War (1654–60) [21] 1657: Alliance with France signed against Spain. 1661: King Louis XIV of France begins his personal reign, taking control of the state. Louis as the leader of ...
Europe has endured thanks in part to Ms. Merkel’s pragmatic stewardship, but it has been battered by crises during her entire time in office. [174] Russia began an invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War that began in 2014. It is the largest conventional military attack in Europe since World ...
In classical antiquity, Europe was assumed to cover the quarter of the globe north of the Mediterranean, an arrangement that was adhered to in medieval T and O maps. Ptolemy's world map of the 2nd century already had a reasonably precise description of southern and western Europe, but was unaware of particulars of northern and eastern Europe.