: 32 : 71 The war caused an exodus of the Crimean Tatars, about 200,000 of whom moved to the Ottoman Empire in continuing waves of emigration. [123] : 79–108 Toward the end of the Caucasian Wars , 90% of the Circassians were ethnically cleansed [124] and exiled from their homelands in the Caucasus and fled to the Ottoman Empire, [125] resulting in the settlement …

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The Peninsular War (1807–1814) was the military conflict fought in the Iberian Peninsula by Spain, Portugal, and the United Kingdom against the invading and occupying forces of the First French Empire during the Napoleonic Wars.In Spain, it is considered to overlap with the Spanish War of Independence. The war started when the French and Spanish armies invaded and …

Events Pre-1600. 484 – King Huneric of the Vandals replaces Nicene bishops with Arian ones, and banishes some to Corsica.; 1303 – The English are defeated at the Battle of Roslin, in the First War of Scottish Independence.; 1386 – King Charles III of Naples and Hungary is assassinated at Buda.; 1525 – A Spanish-Austrian army defeats a French army at the Battle of …

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Events Pre-1600. 306 – Constantine I is proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops.; 315 – The Arch of Constantine is completed near the Colosseum in Rome to commemorate Constantine I's victory over Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge.; 677 – Climax of the Siege of Thessalonica by the Slavs in a three-day assault on the city walls.; 864 – The Edict of Pistres of Charles the Bald …

The Battle of Sisak was fought on 22 June 1593 between Ottoman Bosnian forces and a combined Christian army from the Habsburg lands, mainly Kingdom of Croatia and Inner Austria.The battle took place at Sisak, central Croatia, at the confluence of the Sava and Kupa rivers, on the borderland between Christian Europe and the Ottoman Empire. ...

Charles V (24 February 1500 – 21 September 1558) was Holy Roman Emperor and Archduke of Austria from 1519 to 1556, King of Spain (Castile and Aragon) from 1516 to 1556, and Lord of the Netherlands as titular Duke of Burgundy from 1506 to 1555. As he was head of the rising House of Habsburg during the first half of the 16th century, his dominions in Europe included the Holy …

Henry II (French: Henri II; 31 March 1519 – 10 July 1559) was King of France from 31 March 1547 until his death in 1559. The second son of Francis I and Duchess Claude of Brittany, he became Dauphin of France upon the death of his elder brother Francis in 1536.. As a child, Henry and his elder brother spent over four years in captivity in Spain as hostages in exchange for their father.