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early 1500s: A modern interpretation of the Cinderella story, involving several historical figures like Francis I, King Henry (later Henry II of France) and Leonardo da Vinci: The Man Who Laughs: 1966: 1500–1502: Set during the war between the Borgia family and Astorre Manfredi, prince of Faenza. Prince of Foxes: 1949: 1500–1507
Major conflicts of this era include the Italian Wars and Thirty Years' War in Europe, the Kongo Civil War in Africa, the Qing conquest of the Ming in Asia, the Spanish conquest of Peru in South America, and the American Revolutionary War in North America. Based on statistics from Our World in Data (starting in 1400), 1525 (the end of the German ...
1727–1729 British-Spanish War – 15,000 killed in action [1] 1733–1738 War of the Polish Succession – 88,000 killed in action [1] 1735–1739 Russo-Ottoman War. 1740–1748 War of the Austrian Succession – 359,000 killed in action [1] 1740–1763 Silesian Wars. 1741–1743 Russo-Swedish War. 1745–1746 Jacobite rising of 1745.
List of Boshin War and Satsuma Rebellion films. List of Franco-Prussian War films. List of Mexican Revolution and Cristero War films. List of World War I films. List of Irish revolutionary period films. List of Spanish Civil War films. List of films about the Spanish Maquis. List of World War II films. List of Korean War films.
The Battle of Lepanto was a naval engagement that took place on 7 October 1571 when a fleet of the Holy League, a coalition of Catholic states arranged by Pope Pius V, inflicted a major defeat on the fleet of the Ottoman Empire in the Gulf of Patras. The Ottoman forces were sailing westward from their naval station in Lepanto (the Venetian name ...
The Siege of Vienna, in 1529, was the first attempt by the Ottoman Empire to capture the city of Vienna in the Archduchy of Austria, part of the Holy Roman Empire. Suleiman the Magnificent, sultan of the Ottomans, attacked the city with over 100,000 men, while the defenders, led by Niklas Graf Salm, numbered no more than 21,000.
The Massacre of Saint Bartholomew's Day was the culmination of a series of events: The Peace of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, which put an end to the third War of Religion on 8 August 1570. The marriage between Henry III of Navarre and Margaret of Valois on 18 August 1572. The failed assassination of Admiral de Coligny on 22 August 1572.
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