The English Restoration, or simply The Restoration began in 1660 when the English monarchy, Scottish monarchy and Irish monarchy were restored under Charles II after the Interregnum that...
The Great Fire of London, a major conflagration that swept through the central parts of London from Sunday, 2 September to Wednesday, 5 September 1666, was one of the major events in the...
The Great Plague was a massive outbreak of disease in England that killed 75,000 to 100,000 people, up to a fifth of London's population. The disease was historically identified as...
The Gunpowder Conspiracy of 1605, or the Powder Treason or Gunpowder Plot, as it was known at the time, was a failed assassination attempt by a group of provincial English Catholics against...
The First English Civil War was the first of three wars known as the English Civil War . "The English Civil War" was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations which...
The Second English Civil War was the second of three wars known as the English Civil War which refers to the series of armed conflicts and political machinations which took place...
The Third English Civil War was the last of the English Civil War , a series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Parliamentarians and Royalists. The Preston campaign...
Scotland in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms covers Scotland's involvement in the wider conflict known as the Wars of the Three Kingdoms between 1644 and 1650. The Wars of the Three Kingdoms...
The Wars of the Three Kingdoms formed an intertwined series of conflicts that took place in Scotland, Ireland, and England between 1639 and 1651 after...
The English Civil War was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Parliamentarians and Royalists. The first...
This article is concerned with the military history of Ireland from 1641-53. For the political context of this conflict, see Confederate Ireland. The Irish Confederate Wars, also sometimes...
The Thirty Years' War was a religious war principally fought in Germany, where it involved most of the European powers. The conflict began between Protestants and Catholics in the Holy...
The Battle of Ningyuan was a battle between the Han Chinese Ming Dynasty and the Manchurian Later Jin in 1626. The Ming won this battle. This battle marks the temporary resurgence of the...
The 17th Century was that century which lasted from 1601 to 1700 in the Gregorian calendar. The 17th Century falls into the Early Modern period of Europe and was characterized by the Baroque...
As a means of recording the passage of time, the 16th century lasted from 1501 to 1600. During the 16th century, Spain and Portugal explored and conquered the world seas. Latin America...
The Jacobean era refers to a period in English and Scottish history that coincides with the reign of King James I . The Jacobean era succeeds the Elizabethan era and precedes the Caroline...
The prehistory of Australia is the period between the first human habitation of the Australian continent and the first definitive sighting of Australia by Europeans in 1606, which may be...
The Pequot War was an armed conflict in 1636-1637 between an alliance of Massachusetts Bay and Plymouth colonies, with Native American allies , against the Pequot tribe....
The Battle of Dessau Bridge was a battle of the Thirty Years' War near Dessau on April 25, 1626. The Imperial Roman Catholic forces of Albrecht von Wallenstein defeated the...
For the American Civil War battle see: Battle of Plymouth The Battle of Plymouth was a naval battle in the First Anglo-Dutch War. It took place on 26 August 1652 ...
The Short Parliament of King Charles I is so called because it lasted only three weeks. After eleven years of attempting personal rule, Charles recalled Parliament in 1640,...
The Khmelnytsky Uprising was a Cossack rebellion in Ukraine in 1648–1657 (1654) which turned into a Ukrainian war of liberation from Poland. Under the command of Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky...
Northern Wars is a term used for a series of wars fought in northern and northeastern Europe in the 16th and 17th century. An internationally agreed on terminology for these wars does not...
Scanian War (Danish: Skånske Krig, Swedish: Skånska kriget, German: Schonischer Krieg) was a part of the Northern Wars involving the union of Denmark-Norway, Brandenburg and Sweden. It was...
The Monmouth Rebellion of 1685, also known as the Pitchfork Rebellion, was an attempt to overthrow James II, who had become King of England, King of Scots and King of Ireland at the death of...