ÿþ<html> <head> <title>WHKMLA : Timelines - Early Modern States </title> <!-- copyright Alexander Ganse, 2003-2006 --> </head> <body bgcolor="lightblue" text="black" link="blue" vlink="red" alink="brown"> <style> <!-- A{ font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-face: arial; } --> </style> <DIV align ="center"> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "../../index.html"> <img src = "../../whkmla2.jpg" border = "0"> </a></TD></TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "center" valign = "center"> <img src = "../../meh.jpg" border = "0"> </a></TD></TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width = "200" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <font size = "2" face = "arial"><B> Timeline <BR> Wars of Religion </b></font></TD> <TD width = "36" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "tlwor.html"> <img src = "../../region/arrowleft.gif" width = "36" height = "36" border = "0"> </a></TD> <TD align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "xtimelines.html"> <img src = "../timelines.jpg" border = "0"> </TD> <TD width = "36" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "tlscirev.html"> <img src = "../../region/arrowright.gif" width = "36" height = "36" border = "0"> </a></TD> <TD width = "200" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <font size = "2" face = "arial"><B> Timeline <BR> Scientific Revolution </b></font></TD></TR></TABLE> <font size = "3" face = "arial"><B><i>First posted on May 9th 2003, last revised on September 5th 2004 </i></b></font><BR><BR><BR><BR> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "center" valign = "center" width = "900"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "5"><B> Timeline Early Modern States </B></font><BR> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"><i> http://www.zum.de/whkmla/timelines/meh/tlems.html </i></font></B> </TD></TR></TABLE> <BR><BR> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "110"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> 1460 <BR> 1477 <BR> 1489 <BR><BR> 1516 <BR> 1536 <BR> 1561 <BR> 1561 <BR> 1569 <BR> 1573 <BR> 1579 <BR> 1580 <BR> 1592-1599 <BR> 1600 <BR> 1602 <BR> 1603 <BR><BR> 1605 <BR><BR> 1610-1612 <BR><BR> 1614-1615 <BR> 1618 <BR> 1618 <BR><BR> 1618-1619 <BR><BR> 1619 <BR> 1620 <BR><BR> 1621 <BR> 1623-1635 <BR> 1625 <BR> 1625-1629 <BR><BR> 1626-1629 <BR> 1628 <BR> 1634 <BR> 1635 <BR> 1637 <BR> 1638 <BR> 1640 <BR> 1642-1648 <BR> 1648-1653 <BR> 1649 <BR> 1649-1660 <BR> 1650-1672 <BR> 1654 <BR> 1672 <BR> </font></TD> <BR><TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "600"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> Duchies of Schleswig, Holstein establish principle to remain unpartitioned forever <BR> F : King Louis XI. establishes a Royal Postal Service <BR> HRE : Emperor Maximilian appoints Francis de Taxis as Imperial postmaster; family <BR> continued to run Imperial Postal Service until into 1860es <BR> ENG : King Henry VIII. appointed a master of the posts, thus establishing a postal service <BR> Dissolution of Norway's Rigsrad (Council of the Realm); country administrated from Denmark <BR> Courland transformed into a hereditary Duchy, Polish fief <BR> Estates of Livonia ask for Polish Protection <BR> Union of Lublin - Parliaments of Poland, Lithuania merge <BR> Poland-Lithuania becomes Elective Kingdom <BR> NL : Union of Utrecht; begin of Dutch Revolt <BR> E, P : Philip II. occupies Lisbon, enforces Dynastic Union Spain & Portugal <BR> Sweden, Poland in Personal Union (King Sigismund Vasa) <BR> ENG : Establishment of East India Company (monopolistic) <BR> NL : Establishment of V.O.C. (Dutch East India Company, monopolistic) <BR> Queen Elizabeth I. of England dies; succeeded by King James VI. of Scotland; thus <BR> Dynastic Union between England and Scotland established <BR> Venice : Republic pursues policy of Religious Toleration; is banned by Pope; <BR> Republic ignores ban; ban lifted 1607 <BR> RUS, PL : Moscow occupied by Poles; negotiations on Dynastic Union of Russia and <BR> Poland-Lithuania fail <BR> F : Estates General assemble for the last time before 1789 <BR> DK : East India Company founded; acquires Frederiksnagar (1618), Tranquebar (1620) <BR> Bohemia : Defenestration of Prague attempt by Estates to introduce Noble's Republic, <BR> as existing in Poland; elect Count Palatinate as King <BR> NL : Stadholder Prince Maurice has Pensionary of Holland Johan van Oldenbarneveldt <BR> arrested, tried for treason, executed; Synod of Dordt <BR> S : Foundation of G&ouml;teborg <BR> Bohemia : country conquered by League forces; many estate members executed, <BR> Habsburg rule restored <BR> NL : Establishment of W.I.C. (Dutch West India Company) <BR> S : Justice system reformed, High Courts introduced <BR> NL : Hugo Grotius publishes "De Belli ac Pacis" <BR> ENG : Conflict between King Charles I. and Parliament; in 1628 Parliament hands in <BR> Petition of Rights <BR> F : Huguenot Rebellion (La Rochelle); England supports Huguenots <BR> ENG : Assassination of the Duke of Buckingham, King Charles I.'s main adviser <BR> S : Administrative Reform; old administrative districts (-land) replaced by L&auml;ns <BR> F : Academie Francaise founded (Richelieu) <BR> S : New Sweden founded <BR> S : State Postal Service introduced <BR> P : Independence reestablished (from Spain) <BR> ENG : English Civil War, between King and Parliament <BR> F : Fronde <BR> ENG : King Charles I. sentenced for treason, executed <BR> ENG : Commonwealth <BR> S : Abdication of Queen Christina <BR> NL : First Era of Liberty <BR> Samuel von Pufendorf publishes "De Jure Naturae ac Gentium" <BR> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE><BR><BR> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "700"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> <A NAME = "bib">Bibliography</A> <BR><BR> Eugene F Rice, Anthony Grafton, <A HREF = "http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0393963047/104-5333343-1308716"> The Foundations of Early Modern Europe</A>, NY : Norton (1970) 1994, 218 pp., KMLA Lib.Sign. <B>940.2 N882h v.1</B> <BR> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE><BR><BR> </DIV> <DIV align="center"> <A href="mailto:aganse@hotmail.com"> <IMG src="../../email.gif" border="0"></a><BR> </DIV><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR> <!-- Start of CH Counter --> <script type="text/javascript"> //<!-- // chCounter v2.0.0 // settings: cstatus = "active"; visible = "0"; path_to_counterfile = "http://www.zum.de/whkmla/counter/counter.php"; urlhp = "http://www.zum.de"; //////////////// url = unescape(location.href); file = url.substring(url.lastIndexOf(urlhp) + urlhp.length, url.length); file = (file.charAt(0) != "/") ? 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