1618-1648—Thirty Years' War
1642-1646—First English Civil War
1648— Second English Civil War
1652-1654—First Anglo-Dutch War
1664-1667—Second Anglo-Dutch War
1667-1668—War of Devolution
1676-1681—First Russo-Turkish War
1688-1697—War of the League of Augsburg
1695-1696—Second Russo-Turkish War
1700-1721—Great Northern War
1701-1713—War of the Spanish Succession
1710-1711—Third Russo-Turkish War
1733-1738—War of the Polish Succession
1736-1739—Fourth Russo-Turkish War
1740-1748—War of the Austrian Succession

1600

• Merchants in London found the English East India Company to challenge the Dutch spice trade in the East Indies.
• Having been granted a monopoly on the North American fur trade, Frenchmen Pierre Chauvin; Francois Grave, Sieur de Pontgrave; and Pierre du Guast, Sieur
  de Monts, try unsuccessfully to establish a colony at Tadoussac on the lower Saint Lawrence River at the mouth of the Saguenay River.
  
• Cynthia's Revels, a play by Ben Jonson, is...