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Thus began the Sengoku period, a period of civil war in which the daimyo of various regions fought to expand their own power. [9] [12] Daimyo who became more powerful as the shogunate's control weakened were called sengoku daimyo (戦国大名), and they often came from shugo daimyo, Shugodai, and kokujin or kunibito (国人, local masters).
Choctaw Civil War: Choctaw Eastern Division Choctaw Western Division 1747 1796 Civil War between Afsharid and Qajar: Afsharid dynasty: Qajar dynasty: 1749 1754 Second Carnatic War Great Britain. British East India Company Sepoys Maratha allies France. French East India Company Nawab of Arcot. 1749 1757 Third Javanese War of Succession: Mataram ...
The categorisation of the past into discrete, quantified named blocks of time is called periodization. [1] This is a list of such named time periods as defined in various fields of study. These can be divided broadly into prehistorical periods and historical periods (when written records began to be kept).
July 17 – Luther enters the monastic life, at an Augustinian cloister in Erfurt called St. Augustine's Monastery. [125] July 24 – Travelling to India, a group of Portuguese explorers led by Francisco de Almeida, with 22 ships and 1,500 men, sack the city-state of Kilwa in East Africa, killing the Emir Abraham for failing to pay tribute ...
In the many decades between the Revolutionary War and the Civil War, such divisions became increasingly irreconcilable and contentious. [1] Events in the 1850s culminated with the election of the anti-slavery Republican Abraham Lincoln as president on November 6, 1860.
1651 – In the wake of the English Civil War, Virginia acknowledges the authority of the Parliament of England. 1652 – Massachusetts Bay Colony authorizes John Hull and Robert Sanderson to issue colonial coinage. 1655 – Dutch take control of New Sweden. The Peach Tree War between Dutch settlers and the Susquehannock and allied tribes
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The world map by the Italian Amerigo Vespucci (from whose name the word America is derived) and Belgian Gerardus Mercator shows (besides the classical continents Europe, Africa, and Asia) the Americas as America sive India Nova', New Guinea, and other islands of Southeast Asia, as well as a hypothetical Arctic continent and a yet undetermined Terra Australis.