1664 - Events. March 12 - New Jersey becomes a colony of England. August 1 - The Ottoman Empire is defeated in the Battle of Saint Gotthard by an Austrian army led by Raimondo Montecuccoli, resulting in the Peace of Vasvár. September 24 - Dutch Governor Peter Stuyvesant surrenders New Amsterdam to an English naval squadron commanded by Colonel Richard Nicolls. 1664 - Births. January 4 - Lars Roberg, Swedish physician (d. 1742) ...

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August 1 is the 213th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (214th in leap years), with 152 days remaining. August 1 - Events. 527 - Justinian I becomes Byzantine Emperor. 607 - Ono no Imoko is dispatched as envoy to the Sui court in China (Traditional Japanese date: July 3, 607). 1291 - The Swiss Confederation is formed. 1492 - Ferdinand and Isabella drive the Jews out of Spain. 1461 - Edward IV is crowned king of England. 1498 - Christop ...

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The area has been inhabited since the ancient times. The first large settlement dates back to the 5th century BCE, its inhabitants were Celts. They named the town Arrabona, a name that was used for eight centuries and its shortened form is still used as the German (Raab) and Slovak (Ráb) name of the city. Roman merchants moved to Arrabona during the 1st century BCE, and around 10 CE the Roman army occupied the northern part of Western Hungary which they called Pannonia. Although the Roman Empire abandoned the area in the 4th century due to constant attacks of the tribes living east from the a ...

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Ottoman wars in Europe - 1300s-1456: Ottoman Expansion into Europe. After striking a blow to the weakened Byzantine Empire in 1356 (see Suleyman Pasha) which provided it a basis for operations in Europe, The Ottoman Empire started its westward expansion into the European continent in the middle of the 14th century. Its first significant opponent was the young Serbian Empire, which was worn down by a series of campaigns, notably in the Battle of Kosovo in 1389, in which the leaders of both armies were killed, and ...

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After a few years of peace began the first of three wars between France and the Empire. The aggressive policy pursued by Louis XIV towards the United Provinces had aroused the serious attention of Europe, and steps had been taken to check it. Although the French king had sought the alliance of several German princes and encouraged the Turks in their attacks on Austria the emperor at first took no part in this movement. He was on friendly terms with Louis, to whom he was closely related and with whom he had already discussed the partition of the lands of the Spanish mona ...

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In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries Italian city-states were becoming enriched by their trade with the Orient. These cities, such as Venice, Florence, and Genoa, had woefully small armies and were increasingly becoming targets of attack by foreign powers as well as envious neighbors. The noblemen ruling the cities soon resorted to hiring companies of mercenaries known as condotta ("contract") to defend their territories. Each condotta was led by a condottiere, term which ...

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Generalissimo - Austria:. Raimondo Montecuccoli (1609-80) Eugene of Savoy (1663-1736) Leopold Josef Graf Daun (1705-1766) Archduke Charles (1771-1847) Karl zu Schwarzenberg (1771-1820) Generalissimo - Britain:. Prince Rupert of the Rhine (1619-1682) Generalissimo - China:. Chiang Kai-Shek (1887-1975) Generalissimo - Czech kingdom:. Albrecht Václ ...

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Ottoman wars in Europe - 1300s-1456: Ottoman Expansion into Europe. After striking a blow to the weakened Byzantine Empire in 1356 (see Suleyman Pasha) which provided it a basis for operations in Europe, The Ottoman Empire started its westward expansion into the European continent in the middle of the 14th century. Its first significant opponent was the young Serbian Empire, which was worn down by a series of campaigns, notably in the Battle of Kosovo in 1389, in which the leaders of both armies were killed, and ...

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Ottoman wars in Europe, Ottoman wars in Europe - History, Ottoman wars in Europe - 1300s-1456: Ottoman Expansion into Europe, Ottoman wars in Europe - 1423-1503: Wars with Venice, Ottoman wars in Europe - 1462-1476: European Successes, Ottoman wars in Europe - 1526-1566: Attack on Hapsburg Empire, Ottoman wars in Europe - 1522-1573: Rhodes and Venice, Ottoman wars in Europe - 1593-1669: Austria and Venice, Ottoman wars in Europe - 1657-1683 Conclusion of Wars with Hapsburgs, Ottoman wars in Europe - 1672-1676: Poland, Ottoman wars in Europe - 1683-1699: Great Turkish war -- Reconquest of Hungary, Ottoman wars in Europe - 1700s, Ottoman wars in Europe - 1800s, Ottoman wars in Europe - 20th Century

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Intended for the Church, he received a good education but his prospects were changed by the death of his elder brother the German king Ferdinand IV, in July 1654, when he became his father's heir. In 1655 he was chosen king of Hungary and in 1656 king of Bohemia, and in July 1658, more than a year after his father's death, he was elected emperor at Frankfurt in spite of the intrigues of Cardinal Mazarin, who wished to place on the imperial throne Ferdinand Maria, elector of Bavaria, or some other ...

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