#p <nat>Hungarian<o>king<n>Rudolph II<b>1552<d>1612<info>Rudolph II was king of Hungary and Bohemia. He became the Holy Roman Emperor in 1582.
#e <t>battle<d>1516<n>Turks take Jerusalem<c>Jerusalem
#e <t>battle<d>1571<n>Lepanto<c>Gulf of Patras<info>A combined Spanish and Italian fleet defeated the Turkish navy and ended Ottoman domination of the Eastern Mediterranean.
// 17th century
#p <nat>American Indian<o>chief<n>Metacomet<aka>King Philip<d>1676<c>New England<info>Metacomet was the leader in King Philip's War against New England colonists.
#e <t>period<n>The Baroque Period<d>1600(25)<e>1700(25)<c>Europe<info>The Baroque period is nominally the 17th century.
#e <t>wreck<n>The Vasa<d>1628 Aug 10<c>Sweden
#e <t>period<d>1639<e>1854<n>Japanese "sakoku"<c>Japan<info>During this time Japan lived in a self-isolation called "sakoku," or national seclusion. This period ended when Commodore Matthew C. Perry sailed to Japan with a fleet of U.S. warships.
#e <t>battle<n>Battle of the Boyne<d>1690 Jul 1<c>/*Boyne River*/Ireland<info>William II defeats James II
// 18th century
#e <t>period<n>The Classical Period<d>1700(25)<e>1800(25)<c>Europe<aka>the Enlightenment<info>Europe's Classical period is nominally the 18th century. The Romantic period is nominally the 19th century, and the Modern period refers to the 20th century.
#e <t>treaty<n>Treaty of Utrecht<d>1713<c>Utrecht
#e <t>war<n>War of the Austrian Succession<d>1740<e>1748<c>Europe
#p <nat>Arab<o>king<n>Sharif Hussein bin Ali<sur>Sharif Hussein<b>1853<d>1931<info>Emir of Mecca and King of the Arabs, he was the last of the Hashemite Sharifians that ruled over Mecca, Medina and the Hijaz in unbroken succession from 1201 to 1925. Sharif Hussein is best known for launching the Great Arab Revolt in June 1916 against the Ottoman army. During the First World War, the Turkish-dominated Ottoman Empire sided with the Central Powers against the Allies, allowing the Emir of Mecca to seize the opportunity to liberate the Arab lands from Turkish rule by allying himself with the British and the French. His objective in undertaking the Great Arab Revolt was to establish a single independent and unified Arab state stretching from Syria to Yemen. After the war, Britain betrayed him and divided up the territory he hoped to rule with France. The British installed his sons, Abdullah and Faisal, in the new states of Jordan and Iraq, respectively.<ref>www.kinghussein.gov.jo
#p <nat>Indian<o>leader<n>Mohandas Gandhi<b>1869 Oct 2<d>1948
#p <nat>Arab<o>king<n>Abdullah ibn Hussein<sur>Abdullah<b>1882<ac>1946 May 25<d>1951 Jul 20<fa>Sharif Hussein<c>Transjordan<info>Abdullah was emir and king of Jordan. He was chosen to rule Transjordan in 1921. It was a self-governing territory under the British Mandate. He cooperated closely with the British, who helped create the Arab Legion. In 1928 a treaty with Britain made Transjordan a constitutional monarchy. A second treaty with the British on March 22, 1946, created the Hashemite Kingdom of Transjordan. Transjordan opposed the partition of Palestine and joined the other Arab League nations in fighting the new Israeli state in 1948. By the end of the war it occupied a section of West Bank territory designated for the Arabs in the United Nations partition plan. The country's name was changed to Jordan in 1949, and in 1950 it formally annexed the West Bank territory, including Old Jerusalem. Abdullah was assassinated by a Palestinian zealot at the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem in 1951. A year later his son Talal was forced to abdicate in favour of Talal's son Hussein.<ref>Grolier
#p <nat>Arab<o>king<n>Faisal al-Hussein<sur>Faisal<aka>Faisal I<b>1885<d>1933<ac>1920<fa>Sharif Hussein<c>Syria<mov>1921<c>Iraq<info>Faisal became ruler a short-lived Syrian kingdom in 1920 after the Turkish defeat in World War I. The territory of Jordan became part of this kingdom. After Faisal's defeat by French forces in 1920, Transjordan was incorporated into Britain's League of Nations' mandate of Palestine. Faisal became king of Iraq in 1921.
#p <nat>North Vietnamese<o>president<n>Ho Chi Minh<sur>Ho Chi Minh<b>1890<d>1969
#p <nat>Ethiopian<o>emperor<n>Haile Selassie<aka>Tafari Makonnen<b>1892 Jul 23<ac>1930<depo>1935<ac>1941<depo>1974<d>1975 Aug 27<c>Addis Ababa<info>Haile Selassie was exiled from 1935 to 1941 during the Italian Fascist occupation of Ethiopia.
#e <t>decree<n>Sweden cedes Finland to Russia<c>Finland<d>1809
#e <t>war<n>War of 1812<d>1812<e>1815<c>North America
#e <t>decree<d>1844<n>Dominican Republic secedes from Haiti<c>Dominican Republic
#e <d>1845<e>1847<n>Potato Famine<c>Ireland<info>About one million people perished in Ireland, and an equal number emigrated, when the potato crop failed.
