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9 de may. de 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.
- Battle of Nördlingen
Battle of Nördlingen, (Sept. 5–6, 1634), battle fought near...
- Battle of Rocroi
November 16, 1632. Battle of Nördlingen. September 5, 1634 -...
- Battle of Magdeburg
Gustavus Adolphus. Johann Tserclaes, count von Tilly. Battle...
- Battle of Freiburg
Battle of Freiburg, (3, 5, and 9 August 1644).The struggle...
- Battle of Breitenfeld
Battle of Breitenfeld, (Sept. 17, 1631), the first major...
- Battle of White Mountain
Battle of White Mountain, (Nov. 8, 1620), battle fought near...
- Treaty of Westphalia
Peace of Westphalia, European settlements of 1648, which...
- Thirty Years' War
From 1618 to 1648 a series of conflicts engulfed much of...
- Battle of Nördlingen
Hace 22 horas · The Thirty Years' War [j] was one of the longest and most destructive conflicts in European history, lasting from 1618 to 1648. Fought primarily in Central Europe, an estimated 4.5 to 8 million soldiers and civilians died as a result of battle, famine, or disease, while parts of present-day Germany reported population declines of over 50%. [19]
Hace 4 días · Galileo was born in Pisa, Tuscany, on February 15, 1564, the oldest son of Vincenzo Galilei, a musician who made important contributions to the theory and practice of music and who may have performed some experiments with Galileo in 1588–89 on the relationship between pitch and the tension of strings. The family moved to Florence in the early ...
- Galileo was a natural philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician who made fundamental contributions to the sciences of motion, astronomy, and stren...
- Galileo invented an early type of thermometer. Although he did not invent the telescope, he made significant improvements to it that enabled astron...
- In 1610 Galileo discovered the four biggest moons of Jupiter (now called the Galilean moons) and the rings of Saturn.
- For his heresy in claiming that Earth orbits the Sun, Galileo was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Roman Catholic Church in 1633. He was not t...
- Galileo influenced scientists for decades to come, not least in his willingness to stand up to the church to defend his findings. His improvements...
Hace 1 día · Galileo had alienated one of his biggest and most powerful supporters, the Pope, and was called to Rome to defend his writings in September 1632. He finally arrived in February 1633 and was brought before inquisitor Vincenzo Maculani to be charged .
24 de may. de 2024 · The Second Anglo-Powhatan War (1622–1632) was fought between Jamestown and the Powhatan Confederacy in the area known to the Powhatans as Tsenacomoco and Virginia to the colonists. The war ended in 1632 with a peace treaty that gave the colonists control of the peninsula between the James River and the York River.
Hace 2 días · Definition. Charles I of England (r. 1625-1649) was a Stuart king who, like his father James I of England (r. 1603-1625), viewed himself as a monarch with absolute power and a divine right to rule. His lack of compromise with Parliament led to the English Civil Wars (1642-51), his execution, and the abolition of the monarchy in 1649.
