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| 1605 |
| | | The Gunpowder Plot, attempting murder and treason, severely damages the Catholic cause in Britain | |
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| 1619 |
| | | The Protestant Frederick V (elector palatine of the Rhine) is elected king by the rebellious Bohemian nobles | |
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| 1636 |
| | | John Hampden refuses to pay ship money to Charles I, beginning a campaign that gradually wins wide support | |
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| 1638 |
| | | A National Covenant, first signed in an Edinburgh churchyard, commits the Covenanters to oppose Charles I's reforms of the Church of Scotland | |
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| 1638 |
| | | Riots erupt in Edinburgh, in response to the attempt by Charles I and Laud to impose a hierarchy of Anglican bishops | |
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| 1639 |
| | | Covenanters seize control of Edinburgh and other Scottish towns, launching the conflict with England known as the Bishops' War | |
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| 1648 |
| | | A Cossack rebellion leads to the eventual transfer of their territory from Poland to Russia | |
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| 1648 |
| | | A rebellion of nobles against Mazarin, the principal minister of the young Louis XIV, becomes known as the Fronde | |
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| 1680 |
| | | The Pueblo Indians of New Mexico rise against the Spanish, killing 21 missionaries and some 400 colonists | |
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| 1710 |
| | | Machines are thrown out of the window of a Spitalfields factory, in an early protest against industrialization | |
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