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The Blue Mosque, commissioned by Ahmed I, begins to rise in Istanbul like a twin to the nearby Santa Sophia
Henry IV is assassinated in a Paris street by a Roman Catholic, François Ravaillac
Michael Romanov is elected tsar, beginning a new dynasty on the Russian throne
Maryland is granted to Lord Baltimore as a haven for English Roman Catholics
John Bunyan marries a woman whose only possessions inspire him - they are two religious books inherited from her father
The duke of York, heir to the English and Scottish thrones, is secretly received into the Roman Catholic church
The Popish Plot, an invented Jesuit conspiracy to kill Charles II, results in the execution of about thirty-five Roman Catholics
The Hungarian diet grants the Habsburg dynasty in Austria a hereditary right to the crown of St Stephen
A fleet from Oman evicts the Portuguese from Mombasa and Zanzibar
English historian Edward Gibbon, sitting among ruins in Rome, conceives the idea of Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
A border incident at Balta, in the southern Ukraine, sparks a war between Russia and Turkey that will last six years
Goethe's romantic novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther, brings him an immediate European reputation
In the treaty of Kuchuk Kainarji, ending the recent Russo-Turkish war, the Ottoman empire cedes the Crimea to Russia
The treaty of Kuchuk Kainarji grants Russia special rights in relation to the Christian Holy Places under Ottoman control
English historian Edward Gibbon publishes the first volume of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Joseph II passes an Edict of Toleration, for the first time allowing Protestant worship in Habsburg territories
English author Mary Wollstonecraft publishes a passionately feminist work, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
US author Charles Brockden Brown publishes Wieland, the first of four novels setting Gothic romance in an American context
The British acquire a foothold in the Persian Gulf by making Oman a protectorate
English poets Wordsworth and Coleridge jointly publish Lyrical Ballads, a milestone in the Romantic movement
Napoleon mends France's fences with Roman Catholicism by agreeing a Concordat with Pope Pius VII
Walter Scott publishes The Lay of the Last Minstrel, the long romantic poem that first brings him fame
Francis II formally brings to an end the 1000-year-old Holy Roman Empire, to keep it from the clutches of Napoleon
Karageorge captures Belgrade and wins a limited independence for Serbia within the Ottoman empire
The Eastern Question, concerning Turkey's ability to control its vast empire, becomes a persistent nineteenth-century theme
