Belarus. Legendary times: XVII century (1600-1616)
1600 - the beginning of the 29-year war of the Federal Commonwealth with Sweden for supremacy in the Baltic Sea.
1601 - June, the Battle of Kukeynos between the troops of the Grand Duchy, led by Radziwill Perun, and the Swedish army.
1601 - August, defense by the troops of the Grand Duchy of Riga from the Swedes.
1601 - famine in the eastern and central voivodeships of Belarus due to crop failure. In the spring of 1602, an epidemic was added to the famine, which led to a mass extinction of the population in the Gomel region and Mogilev region.
1602 - the burning of Vitebsk and the destruction of the city residence by the corral of the Zaporozhye Cossacks of Ataman Dubina.
1602 - December, the beginning of a 4-month successful siege of the Swedish garrison in the city and castle of Dorpat (present-day Tartu) by the 2,000-strong army of Polish Hetman Jan Chodkiewicz.
1603 - September, the barbaric murder of the translator and publisher of the Gospel in the Belarusian language Vasily Tyapinsky by his own nephews for spending money on a printing house.
1603 - creation by Alexander Lisovsky in Belarus of departments of irregular light cavalry from poor gentry and free people. These departments were called lisavchykov. They were distinguished by courage, ruthlessness and a hunt for robberies. They fought in the army of False Dmitry II, served King Sigismund Vasa, then hired themselves to the German Emperor Ferdinand suppresses the Czech uprising of 1620. On the side of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth army participated in the battle with the Turks near Khotyn in 1621. In peaceful years, they turned into gangs of robbers. Finally disbanded in 1636.
1604 - September, the victory of the troops of the INCL led by Hetman Ivan Khodkevich over the Swedish army under the White Stone (in Estonia).
1604 - participation of the military departments of the Belarusian magnates in the campaign of the False Dmitry to Moscow. The battle of the 15-thousandth army of the impostor with the 50-thousandth Moscow army near Novgorod-Seversky.
1605 - January 21 unsuccessful battle of False Dmitry's regiments with the tsarist troops of Vasily Shuisky near Dabrynichi.
1605 - September 27, the victory of the 4 thousandth army of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania led by Hetman Ivan Khodkevich over the 14 thousandth Swedish army at the village of Kirkhholm 13 versts from Riga. The Hussar regiments of V. Voina and Ya played a great role .Sapegi. Belarusians took 60 captured banners of the defeated Swedish regiments in this battle. The Swedes lost 6 thousand people killed, the army Ya.Khadkevich - 100 killed.
1606 - June 20, the uprising of the citizens of Mogilev against the magistrate, led by artisans Stakharam Mitkovich and Peter Kuzminich. Finally suppressed by the authorities in 1610, active participants of the uprising were executed on the gallows.
+1607 - July 6, the victory of the army led by Jan Chodkiewicz over the Rakashanav army (a confederation of gentry directed against King Sigismund Vasa), led by Janusz Radziwill.
1608 - participation of the Belarusian nobility in a campaign against Moscow with the Tushinsky impostor (False Dmitry II).
1608 - the beginning of an inconclusive 15-month siege by Belarusian and Polish departments led by Sapieha and Alexander Lisovsky of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra.
1609 - March 4, the storming of the 2-thousandth army of Hetman the great Jan Khodkevich of the city of Pärnu, which was defended by the Swedish garrison.
1609 - the beginning of the 9-year war of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth with the Moscow state for the return of the Smolensk land to Lithuania. The beginning of the siege by the army of Smolensk. The capture of the city by storm in June 1611.
1609 - July 11, an attempt to murder Metropolitan Hypatius Patey by the Orthodox in Vidni Uniate. The 70-year-old metropolitan was attacked by a Hajduk and struck with a saber. Patsei managed to shield his head with his hand, and the saber cut off his fingers, crossed his cane and clothes. The Hajduk was caught, beaten, and hanged the next day. His last name was Tupeka.
1610 - the second uprising of Mogilev citizens.
1610 - September 21, the entry into Moscow of the Polish and Belarusian troops led by Gonsevsky after the boyars declared the "Russian tsar" of Prince Vladislav Vaza.
1611 - the beginning of the 2-year revolt of the peasants of the Bobruisk villages against the volochnaya square.
1611 - March 29, the suppression of the uprising of citizens against the Polish-Belarusian garrison by the troops of Gonsevsky in Moscow.
1612 - September, the battles of the army of Yan Khodkevich with the apavchennem of Prince Dmitry Pozharsky near Moscow.
1612 - November, forced surrender of the Polish-Belarusian garrison in the Moscow Kremlin.
1613 - the siege of Smolensk by the Moscow army.
1613 - April, the beginning of the construction of the Zhirovichi Uniate monastery and church, where the miraculous image of the Zhirovichi Virgin was placed. The most significant religious core was created by Josaphat Kuntsevich, the sponsors were Jan Meleshko, Danila Soltan, Grigory Trizna. The Zhirovichi icon attracted hundreds of thousands of pilgrims. After Belarus joined Russia, the Zhirovichi were seized for the Orthodox Church.
1614 - April, the liberation of Sapieha and Lisovsky Smolensk from the Moscow siege with sticks.
1615 - the campaign of the regiments, led by Jan Kishka and A.Lisovsky to Starodub and Bryansk.
1615 - Prince Nikolai Radziwill Sirotka founded the commandery of the Order of Malta in Stolovichi nad Shchara.
1616 - the uprising of the citizens of Mozyr in defense of their rights to city self-government. The capture of the castle by the rebels. Fights with the royal troops.
1616 - victorious battle of peasant detachments near Glusk with the gentry banner of Senkevich. fun88