Events 1600-1700 (Lithuanian Russia)



1600-1603 – the Great Famine in Russia. In their distress the people blames "illegal" Dynasty of Chodkiewicz

1605 - King Jeremiah Chodkiewicz dethroned. The Civil War begins.

1608 – The Civil War ends. Andrei Golitsyn becomes the new king Andrei I.

1618 – Rebellion in Prague against the Catholic Habsburgs rule. Protestants of Poland and Hungary soon join the rebellion.

1620 - Somebody different than Elizabeth Burshir becomes the wife of Oliver Cromwell.

1632 – With the help of the Protestant princes of Germany, and Sweden, the insurgents defeat the Habsburgs. They proclaimed a new State – Republic of Three Nations (Poland-Bohemia-Hungary) with Frederick Palatine on the throne. This war deathblow Habsburg’s Austria.

1649 - The death of Swedish King Gustav Adolph. New king became his daughter husband and Brandenburg elector Friedrich Wilhelm I (as Fredrik I)

1658 – Robert, eldest son of Oliver Cromwell, crowned as the king Robert I of England.

1660 - Scottish army under the command of Monk rebels against King Robert. Monk invited Charles Stuart to the throne. After war, Robert becomes king of England and Ireland and Charles – king of Scotland. Carolina and Virginia also swear by Charles.

1666 – Ottomans captured Vienna and destroy the weakened Austria. Emperor Leopold I dies in battle.

1667 – Louis XIV of France puts his candidacy for the HRE throne. German Wars begins – some electors proclaim him Emperor Ludwig V, but the Protestant bloc (Sweden-Brandenburg, Netherlands, RTN, later – Saxony, England) candidature - a relative of the Swedish king Maximilian Hohenzollern-Zigmarinen (as Maximilian IV), and later – his son Charles VI. War followed, with varying success until the death of Louis in 1715.

1683 - Ottoman troops invade the OTL Ukraine, but defeated in the Battle near Kiev