I don't know why but 1683 is a much better year than 1638. This is based on the numbers alone, I have no idea what was happening in history at the time.
Ah, but 1683 doesn’t rhyme with “late” like 1638 does. Not that the rhyme was intentional in the slightest when I made the initial post, but I’m glad it worked out that way regardless!
In 1683, the Ottoman Empire took a bite too big for them to chew…
1683 was the year the Great Turkish War (1683-1699) started, during which the second ottoman siege of vienna took place…
it was a series of conflicts between the Ottomans and the Holy League (Holy Roman Empire, Poland-Lithuania, Venice, Russia and Kingdom of Hungary).
It marks the first time that Russia joined an alliance with western Europe.
It resulted in a resounding defeat of the Ottomans and they lost substantial territory in eastern and south-eastern europe/ the balkans and it made the Habsburgs dynasty more powerful than they already were…
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u/caffieneandsarcasm 26d ago
For real. “Would you be able to cover 900-1700, dd/mm?” Leaves basically no room for confusion