Thirty Years' War 1618–1648

Denmark–Norway, Early modern France, Kingdom of Bohemia, Sweden, History of Sweden (1611–1648), Electorate of Saxony, Dutch Republic, Electorate of the Palatinate ⚔ Holy Roman Empire, Catholic League (German), Austria, Kingdom of Bohemia, Kingdom of Hungary, Kingdom of Croatia (Habsburg), Spanish Empire, Habsburg Spain

Key battles

• Siege of Pilsen (1618)
• Battle of Sablat (1619)
• Battle of White Mountain (1620)
• Battle of Mingolsheim (1622)
• Battle of Fleurus (1622)
• Battle of Wimpfen (1622)
• Battle of Höchst (1622)
• Battle of Stadtlohn (1623)
• Battle of Lutter (1626)
• Battle of Dessau Bridge (1626)
• Siege of Stralsund (1628)
• Battle of Trzciana (1629)
• Battle of Breitenfeld (1631)
• Sack of Magdeburg (1631)
• Battle of Werben (1631)
• Battle of Lützen (1632)
• Battle of Rain (1632)
• Battle of the Alte Veste (1632)
• Battle of Nördlingen (1634)
• Battle of Wittstock (1636)
• Battle of Breitenfeld (1642)
• Battle of Freiburg (1644)
• Battle of Jankau (1645)
• Battle of Nördlingen (1645)
• Battle of Lens (1648)
• Battle of Prague (1648)
• Battle of Zusmarshausen (1648)

Who lived through the Thirty Years' War

Well-known people alive during 1618–1648:

• Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) — Italian polymath (1564–1642)
• René Descartes (1596–1650) — French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)
• Molière (1622–1673) — French playwright and actor (1622–1673)
• John Locke (1632–1704) — English philosopher and physician (1632-1704)
• Rembrandt (1606–1669) — Dutch painter and printmaker (1606–1669)
• Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) — French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
• Louis XIV of France (1638–1715) — King of France and of Navarre from 1643 to 1715 (1638-1715)
• Johannes Kepler (1572–1630) — German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
• Benedictus de Spinoza (1632–1677) — Dutch philosopher (1632-1677)
• Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) — Flemish painter (1577–1640)
• Diego Velázquez (1599–1660) — Spanish painter (1599-1660)
• Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) — English philosopher (1588–1679)
• John Milton (1608–1674) — English poet and civil servant (1608–1674)
• Jean de La Fontaine (1621–1695) — French poet, fabulist and writer (1621–1695)
• Lope de Vega (1562–1635) — Spanish playwright and poet (1562-1635)
• Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658) — English military and political leader (1599–1658)
• Christiaan Huygens (1629–1695) — Dutch mathematician, physicist and astronomer (1629–1695)
• Johannes Vermeer (1632–1675) — Dutch painter (1632–1675)
• Pierre de Fermat (1607–1665) — French mathematician and lawyer
• Robert Boyle (1627–1691) — Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor
• Charles I of England (1600–1649) — King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1625 to 1649 (1600-1649)
• Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632–1723) — Dutch scientist known as "the Father of Microbiology", and one of the first microscopists (1632–1723)
• Pierre Corneille (1606–1684) — French tragedian (1606–1684)
• Charles Perrault (1628–1703) — French author (1628-1703)
• Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600–1681) — Spanish dramatist (1600-1681)

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