* 1658 – Treaty of Roskilde: After a devastating defeat in the Northern Wars ( 1655 – 1661 ), the King of Denmark-Norway is forced to give up nearly half his territory to Sweden to save the rest.

Although internment without trial has been authorised by statute since that time, for example during the two World Wars and the Troubles in Northern Ireland, the habeas corpus procedure has in modern times always technically remained available to such internees.

In the second half of the 17th century and most of the eighteenth, Poznań was severely affected by a series of wars ( and attendant military occupations, lootings and destruction ) – the Second and Third Northern Wars, the War of the Polish Succession, the Seven Years ' War and the Bar Confederation rebellion.

During the Swedish occupation of Middle Norway, 1658 – 1660, after Denmark-Norway's devastating defeat in the Northern Wars, the town became a hub of resistance to the Swedes.

In 1916, pro-Venizelist Greek army officers and civilians, with the support of the Allies, launched the Movement of National Defence, creating a pro-Allied temporary government by the name of the " State of Thessaloniki " that controlled " new lands " ( lands that were gained by Greece in the Balkan Wars, most of Northern Greece including Greek Macedonia, the North Aegean as well as the island of Crete ); the official government of the King in Athens, the " State of Athens ", controlled the " old lands " which were traditionally monarchist.

Norway was inevitably caught up in the Northern Wars between Denmark and Sweden ( 1563-1720 ).

Between the end of the Great Northern War and the beginning of the French Revolutionary Wars in the 1790s, Norway enjoyed a period of peace.

The same month the States-General, becoming ever more wary of Swedish king Charles X and his expansion plans, decided to intervene in the Northern Wars by sending a fleet to the Baltic Sea.

Lauenburg was occupied by Swedes in the Northern Wars.

During the Northern Wars in 1655, he declared his support for the Protestant Swedish side, for which Polish partisans burned his house, his manuscripts, and the school's printing press in 1656.

The constitutional ambiguity of Dukes of Brittany as vassals of both Valois France ( in right of Brittany ) and Plantagenet England ( in right of Richmond ) was the source of much tension in Breton and Northern English history, particularly during the great Breton War of Succession and Wars of the Roses.

By the Treaty of Oliva between the Commonwealth and Sweden in 1660 following the Northern Wars the Polish-Lithuanian king renounced all claims to the Swedish throne and Livonia was formally ceded to Sweden.

As adjutant-general and engineering adviser to Charles X of Sweden, he had a great share in the famous crossing of the frozen Belts, and at the sieges of Copenhagen and Kronborg where he directed the engineers during the Northern Wars.

Northern Wars is a term used for a series of wars fought in northern and northeastern Europe in the 16th and 17th century.

While the Great Northern War is generally considered to be the last of the Northern Wars, there are different scholarly opinions on which war constitutes the First Northern War.

Depending upon what date is chosen for the starting point, the Northern Wars comprise:

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* Anthony J. Spalinger, “ The Northern Wars of Seti I: An Integrative Study .” Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 16 ( 1979 ).

Following the Wars in Lombardy between Venice and Milan, which ended in 1454, Northern Italy had been largely at peace during the reigns of Cosimo de ' Medici and Lorenzo de ' Medici in Florence, with the notable exception of the War of Ferrara in 1482-1484.

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* The Caste Wars of the Yucatan and Northern Belize

As sinicization of the Northern Wei state progressed, these customs and traditions were gradually abandoned.

He progressed on to teaching information technology at St Louis Grammar School in Kilkeel, Northern Ireland, and also taught at Park High School in Birkenhead.

As the rebellion was not under his control, it progressed, with the Northern earls trying to foment rebellion among their Catholic subjects to prepare for a Catholic Spanish invasion by the Duke of Alba, governor of the Netherlands.

Rovers also progressed to the final of the Northern Rail Cup for the second successive season, against Leigh Centurions at Bloomfield Road, Blackpool on 16 July.

He established a 13 – 3 lead in the semi-final against Mark Allen and progressed 17 – 13 – withstanding a comeback by the Northern Irishman.

As the season progressed, Widnes were able to recover and reached the Northern Rail Cup Final for the third time in four years.

Three Cheshire League Championships were won in five seasons, before Marine progressed to the Northern Premier League in 1979 – 80.

Construction started in 1861 but progressed slowly until 1867, when the Pennsylvania Railroad ( PRR ) and its ally the Northern Central Railway ( NCRY ) bought the company.

He progressed to the semi-finals of the 2008 / 09 season's first ranking event, the 2008 Northern Ireland Trophy before losing 5 – 6 to O ' Sullivan having led 5 – 4.

Series one started at the White Cliffs of Dover and progressed in a clockwise fashion around the coast of Great Britain ( with a side trip to Northern Ireland ).

Charles introduced certain aspects of the character himself, making Lloyd a Northern Soul music record collector.

* 1660 – With the death of Swedish King Charles X Gustav, the Swedish government can start to seek peace with Sweden's enemies in the Second Northern War – something that Charles X Gustav had refused.

* 1709 – Great Northern War: Battle of Poltava – Peter I of Russia defeats Charles XII of Sweden at Poltava thus effectively ending Sweden's role as a major power in Europe.

* 1702 – Great Northern War: A numerically superior Polish-Saxon army of Augustus II the Strong, operating from an advantageous defensive position, is defeated by a Swedish army half its size under the command of King Charles XII in the Battle of Klissow.

Accordingly, King Charles XII of Sweden was welcomed as an ally in the Ottoman Empire following his defeat by the Russians at the Battle of Poltava in 1709 ( part of the Great Northern War of 1700 – 1721.

Charles Taylor — then leader of the National Patriotic Front of Liberia — reportedly helped form the Revolutionary United Front ( RUF ) under the command of former Sierra Leonean army corporal Foday Saybana Sankoh, an ethnic Temne from Tonkolili District in Northern Sierra Leone.

* 1708 – Charles XII of Sweden stops his march to conquer Moscow outside Smolensk, marking the turning point in the Great Northern War.

Thirty years earlier, Stanisław had been installed as king of Poland by King Charles XII of Sweden during his period of dominance in the early part of the Great Northern War, and was ousted following the Battle of Poltava by the victorious Russians.

** Arms Crisis in the Republic of Ireland: Charles Haughey and Neil Blaney are dismissed as members of the Irish Government, for accusations of their involvement in a plot to import arms for use by the Provisional IRA in Northern Ireland.

* December 12 – Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend, is demoted from his office as Secretary of State for the Northern Department in the British government and replaced by James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope.

Apparently starting in embroidery, it then appears in garden design before being used in Northern Mannerist painted decorative schemes " with a central medallion combined with acanthus and other forms " by Simon Vouet and then Charles Lebrun who used " scrolls of flat bandwork joined by horizontal bars and contrasting with ancanthus scrolls and palmette.

These discussions led to unofficial contacts with the British Northern Ireland Office under the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Peter Brooke, and with the government of the Republic under Charles Haughey – although both governments maintained in public that they would not negotiate with terrorists.

Charles John, as the Commander-in-Chief of the Northern Army, successfully defended the approaches to Berlin and was victorious in battle against Oudinot in August and against Ney in September at the Battles of Grossbeeren and Dennewitz ; but after the Battle of Leipzig he went his own way, determined at all hazards to cripple Denmark and to secure Norway, defeating the Danes at Bornhöved in December.

Although the young Swedish King Charles XII ( 1682 – 1718 ; reigned 1697 – 1718 ) won spectacular victories in the early years of the Great Northern War, most notably in the stunning success against the Russians at the Battle of Narva ( 1700 ), his plan to attack Moscow and force Russia into peace proved too ambitious.

Charles was then at war with much of Northern Europe, and Stralsund was doomed.

Swedish King Charles X Gustav of Sweden | Charles X Gustav in skirmish with Tatars near Warsaw during the Second Northern War.

* Charles Donnelly, president of the Northern Pacific Railway

After the death of Charles XII in 1718, the system of absolute rule was largely blamed for the ruination of the realm in the Great Northern War, and the reaction tipped the balance of power to the other extreme end of the spectrum, ushering in the Age of Liberty.

Thus, in Northern France, Charles possessed Évreux, Mortain, parts of Vexin, and a portion of Cotentin.

Charles of Navarre's military position in Northern France had deteriorated under attacks from the Dauphin's forces throughout the spring, and with the news of Edward's impending invasion Charles decided he must reach an accommodation with the Dauphin.

Basing himself in Cherbourg, the principal town in what remained of his territories in Northern Normandy, he then sent ambassadors to Charles V of France and Edward III of England.