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The Battle of Carbisdale: A Royalist army from Orkney invades mainland Scotland but is defeated by a Covenanter army
Colonel George Monck of the English Army forms Monck's Regiment of Foot, which will later become the Coldstream Guards.
Victory over the royalists in the Battle of Dunbar opens the way to Edinburgh for the New Model Army in the Third…
An Act of Parliament declaring England a Commonwealth is passed by the Long Parliament
The Italian city of Castro is completely destroyed by the forces of Pope Innocent X, ending the Wars of Castro.
Siege of Drogheda ends: Oliver Cromwell's Parliamentarian troops take the town and execute its garrison.
Siege of Drogheda ends: Oliver Cromwell's Parliamentarian troops take the town and execute its garrison.
Cromwell's New Model Army sacks Wexford, killing over 2,000 Irish Confederate troops and 1,500 civilians.
New Ross town in Ireland surrenders to Oliver Cromwell.
An allied French and Swedish army defeats Imperial and Bavarian forces in the Battle of Zusmarshausen
The Roundheads defeat the Cavaliers at the Battle of Maidstone in the Second English Civil War
The Parliamentarians defeat a English Royalist and Scottish army in the battle of Preston.
The Parliamentarians defeat a English Royalist and Scottish army in the battle of Preston.
The Battle of Lens is the last major military confrontation of the Thirty Years' War, contributing to the signing of…
The Fronde: First Fronde: In the wake of the successful Battle of Lens, Cardinal Mazarin, Chief Minister of France,…
The Fronde: First Fronde: In the wake of the successful Battle of Lens, Cardinal Mazarin, Chief Minister of France,…
Second English Civil War: The Siege of Colchester ends when Royalist Forces surrender to the Parliamentary Forces…
Second English Civil War: The Siege of Colchester ends when Royalist Forces surrender to the Parliamentary Forces…
The Peace of Westphalia is signed, marking the end of the Thirty Years' War and the Eighty Years' War.
The Irish Confederate Wars and Wars of the Three Kingdoms: Battle of Dungan's Hill: English Parliamentary forces…