1650

Events 1650s – Tay Mahal completed

1658 Building Tay Mahal India is completed  Events 1651: English Civil War ends with the Parliamentarian victory at the Battle of Worcester. 1655–1661: The Northern Wars cement Sweden‘s rise as a Great Power. 1658: After his father Shah Jahan completes the Taj Mahal, his son Aurangzeb deposes him as ruler of the Mughal Empire. Oliver Cromwell‘s troops sweep through Ireland and bombard the Kiltinan Castle in County Tipperary. William II, Prince of Orange, stadtholder of Holland, attempts to conquer the rest of the Netherlands and attempts a coup d’état against the Dutch Republic. William III of Orange becomes Prince of the House of Orange at the moment of his birth, succeeding his father, who had died a few days […]

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