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Period: 1600-1699 X
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Arundel, Lady Blanche (1583–1649)
Blanche, Lady Arundel, a Royalist supporter of Charles I, is counted among the heroes of the English ...
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Bolotnikov's Rebellion, 1606–1607
Russia suffered considerable economic and political upheaval in the early seventeenth century as raids ...
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Britain, Renaissanceera conflict
Following the Hundred Years' War between England and France in 1453, civil war engulfed England as two ...
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China, peasant revolts in the empire
In premodern China the overwhelming majority of the population were peasants. Unlike their European counterparts, ...
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Colombia, Afro-Colombian movements and anti-racist protests
The term Afro-Colombians refers to Colombians of African ancestry. Their presence dates back to the first ...
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Oliver Cromwell was a Puritan member of parliament and leader of the forces that overthrew the monarchy ...
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The Diggers were one of many groups calling for reform in England in the widespread dissatisfaction and ...
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The Dutch Revolt, also known in the Netherlands as the Eighty Years' War, was one of the most important ...
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The Estates General was a French parliamentary body created in 1302 that served primarily to approve ...
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Ethnic and nationalist revolts in the Hapsburg Empire, 1500–1848
The Hapsburg Empire emerging in 1526 with the acceptance of Hapsburg rule by the Bohemian and Hungarian ...
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