Five years after the Romanovs came to power (1613), the Thirty Years' War broke out in Europe.
The events
- Election of Michael Romanov as Tsar1613 · Moscow. On 3 March 1613 the Zemsky Sobor elected 16-year-old Michael Romanov as tsar. This ended the Time of Troubles and founded the Romanov dynasty, which ruled Russia until 1917.
- Thirty Years' War1618–1648 · Prague. Beginning with the Defenestration of Prague as a Protestant–Catholic conflict within the Holy Roman Empire, the war drew in almost every European power. Germany lost perhaps a third of its population; the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 founded the modern system of sovereign states.
More amazing facts
- 1582 · 1918 In autumn 1582 Catholic Europe jumped from 4 to 15 October, while Yermak’s Cossacks were marching on the capital of the Khanate of Sibir.
- 1598 · 1605 While False Dmitry I ruled in Moscow (1605–1606), the first part of Don Quixote came out in Madrid.
- 1600 · 1601 Some scientists think the 1600 eruption of Peru's Huaynaputina caused the cooling behind Russia's Great Famine of 1601–1603, which helped spark the Time of Troubles.
- 1605 · 1616 Cervantes and Shakespeare died in April 1616 on nearly the same calendar date — but Spain used the Gregorian calendar and England did not, so over a week really separates them.
- 1610 In 1610 Galileo discovered Jupiter's moons — while in Moscow the Seven Boyars ruled and a Polish garrison entered the city.
- 1613 · 1627 The last aurochs, the wild ancestor of cattle, died in a Polish forest in 1627 — 14 years after Michael Romanov was elected tsar.