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  2. Thirty Years' War - Wikipedia

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    Related conflicts include the Eighty Years' War, the War of the Mantuan Succession, the Franco-Spanish War, the Torstenson War, the Dutch-Portuguese War, and the Portuguese Restoration War. The war can be seen as a continuation of the religious conflict initiated by the 16th-century Reformation within the Holy Roman Empire.

  3. List of wars: 1500–1799 - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. European wars of religion - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of White Mountain (1620) in Bohemia was one of the decisive battles of the Thirty Years' War that ultimately led to the reconversion of Bohemia to Catholicism.. The European wars of religion were a series of wars waged in Europe during the 16th, 17th and early 18th centuries.

  5. List of conflicts in Europe - Wikipedia

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    8 16th century. 9 17th century. 10 18th century. 11 19th century. 12 20th century. ... 1756–1763 Seven Years' War – 992,000 killed in action [1] 1757 Battle of ...

  6. Category:16th-century conflicts - Wikipedia

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    16th-century Scottish clan battles (30 P) 16th-century people by conflict (25 C) 0–9. ... Origins of the Eighty Years' War; Ottoman conquest of Bosnia and Herzegovina;

  7. 16th century - Wikipedia

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    The 16th century began with the Julian year 1501 ... with the groundwork for the epochal Thirty Years' War being laid towards the end of the century.

  8. Military Revolution - Wikipedia

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    In the 16th century, a lighter, less expensive cavalry gained ground, so that the proportion of cavalry in the armies actually grew continually, so that in the last battles of the Thirty Years War cavalry actually outnumbered infantry as never before since the high feudal period. [24]

  9. List of wars involving England - Wikipedia

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    English factory rejected from Siam, after minor naval action, along with massacre in the aftermath: the war was not pursued. In 1688, a coup forced the closure of all official European trade in Siam for 150 years except for the Dutch. 1688 1697 Nine Years' War: Grand Alliance: Dutch Republic England Holy Roman Empire Spanish Empire Duchy of Savoy