Holy League Formed
1684
Under Pope Innocent XI's mediation, Austria, Poland, Venice, and later Russia joined in a Holy League to push the Ottomans back from Europe. The resulting war, lasting sixteen years, would drive the Turks out of Hungary and into long-term strategic retreat. Christian Europe had gone on the offensive at last.
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Era
Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.
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