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| 1604 |
| | | The first false Dmitry marches into Russia with a Polish army to claim the throne | |
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| 1608 |
| | | A second false Dmitry marches on Moscow, to be followed by a third in 1612 | |
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| 1613 |
| | | The American Indian princess Pocahontas is taken hostage by Jamestown colonists in the first Anglo-Powhatan war | |
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| 1617 |
| | | Albrecht von Wallenstein uses his wife's fortune to mobilize a private army in support of the emperor Ferdinand II | |
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| 1618 |
| | | Bohemian nobles throw the Habsburg regents out of a window in the castle in Prague, thus triggering the Thirty Years' War | |
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| 1622 |
| | | A sudden attack by Powhatan Indians, led by their chieftain Opechancanough against the English colony at Jamestown, results in the death of more than 300 settlers | |
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| c. 1625 |
| | | Gustavus II, king of Sweden, conscripts and trains an army far more mobile than those of his rivals | |
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| c. 1625 |
| | | Ordnance factories in Sweden begin producing light but powerful field artillery, easy to move on the battlefield | |
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| 1629 |
| | | After years of warfare, the truce of Altmark gives Estonia and most of Latvia to Sweden | |
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| 1631 |
| | | Gustavus II and the Swedish army win a conclusive victory over the imperial forces at Breitenfeld | |
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