1600-1721 Swedish empire map TL

I intend this TL to end in a greater Swedish empire.
1600-1610:
*Spanish forces lands in Ireland and wins decisively at Kinsale with the aid of the local Irish.Spain effectively controls the southernmost part of Ireland.
*The rebellion in Ireland continue to grow.
*The first performance of Twelfth Night occurs on Candlemas.
*The United East India Company is established by the United Provinces States-General in Amsterdam, with the stated intention of capturing the spice trade from the Portuguese.
*Bartolomew Gosnold becomes the first European at Cape Cod.
*The British East India company launch a small fleet to Aceh.The fleet is captured and destroyed by the Portuguese garrison in Malacca.
*The Bodleian Library at Oxford University is opened to the public.
*In a usrprise attack by the duke of Savoy and his brothern-in-law Phillip II of Spain against Genevan forces the Genevan army is destroyed and the duke of Savoy annexes Geneva.
*Portuguese expelled from Bahrain.
*Ben Jonson writes Poetaster.
*William Shakespeare writes The Merry Wives of Windsor.
*Persia and Spain conclude a defensive alliance and declare war on the Ottoman Empire.
*A private trading company is established in Copenhagen, with a monopoly on the trade with Iceland.
*Publication of the play A Larum for London in London.
*Huge famine breaks in Russia from 1602 to 1634.Many scholars view the famine as one of the reasons for the lack of industrialisation in Russia during the early 18th century.
*Pope Leo XI succeeds Pope Clement VIII as the 232nd pope.
*Tsar Boris Godunov dies; Feodor II accedes to the Russian throne.
*In England, John Winthrop, later governor of the future Massachusetts Bay Colony, marries his first wife (of 4), Mary Forth, daughter of John Forth, of Great Stambridge, Essex.
*Russian troops in Moscow imprison Feodor II and his mother, later executing them.Pretender Dmitri is unable to gain control on the whole country and the Russian Tsardom was dissolved by 1611 breaking up into the Russian Republic in the south and the Russian Empire in the north which was led by Dmitri.
*Swedish armies are defeated by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth at Kirckholm.Charles IX begin to build a stronger infantry lines based on muskets and order to begin producing new canon to be deployed against Polish hussars.
*In Strassburg, the world's first newspaper is published by Johann Carolus.
*Francis Bacon publicizes Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning, Divine and Humane.
*Jahangir ascend the throne of the Mughal empire.
*Guy Fawkes blows up the parliament building in London killing everyone inside including James I of England.Hnery Frederick ascend to the thrones of England of Scotland but his is only 11 years old and various English generals refuse to accept his suthority and so his authority is limited to Scotland.
*Ireland and Wales declare their independence.Spanish troops occupies both countries on their rquest hjowever due to race riots between native Irish ad Welsh to English settlers.Ireland and Wales becomes autonomous provinces of Spain.
*Miguel de Cervantes publicizes the first part of the landmark novel Don Quixote ("El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha" or "The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha") — one of the earliest novels in the western literary tradition.
*Polish troops try to occupy Moscow to destroy Russian influence near their borders once and for all but are defeated by a combined Spanish-Russian republic forces in Smolensk.
*Tokugawa Ieyasu abdicates as shogun of Japan, becoming Ogosho. His son Tokugawa Hidetada succeeds him to the office.
*Crew of the Olive become the first British visitors to Barbados.
*French hugenot refugees settles in Stockholm and Uupsaala.
*De Nieuwe Tijdinghen, a Dutch proto-newspaper, is published.
*Central Mexico's Amerindian population reaches one million.
*January 13,1607 – The Bank of Genoa fails after the announcement of national bankruptcy in Spain.
*San Agustin Church in Manila is officially completed; it is currently the oldest church in the Philippines.
*A massive wave sweeps along the Bristol Channel, killing 2,000 people.
*A Dutch fleet destroys a Spanish fleet anchored in the Bay of Gibraltar (Battle of Gibraltar).
*Charles IX orders to establish the first Swedish colony in the Americas.The colony is named Charlesstad after Charles IX (In OTL Bermuda).
*John Hall marries Susanna, daughter of William Shakespeare.
*The kingdom of Newton is established Newton in what used to be the kingdom of England.
*Spain is effectively bankrupt.
*The rule of Andorra passes jointly to the king of France and the Bishop of Urgell.
*Yaqob is defeated in battle and deposed by his cousin Susenyos, who then becomes Emperor of Ethiopia.
*Missionary Juan Fonte establishes the first Jesuit mission among the Tarahumara, in the Sierra Madre Mountains of Northwest Mexico.
*Emperor Susenyos of Ethiopia defeats an Oromo army at Ebenat; 12,000 Oromo are reportedly killed at a cost of 400 Amhara.
*Susenyos is formally crowned Emperor of Ethiopia at the ancient city of Axum.
*The Protestant Union is founded in Auhausen.
*Quebec City is founded by Samuel de Champlain.
*The University of Oviedo, Spain is founded.
*Dutch lens maker Hans Lippershey demonstrates the first telescope in the Dutch parliament.
*Charlesstown population grows to 240.
*Swedish troops enter Moscow at the request of the Russian republic's parliament to counter Polish agression.
*The first cheques are used in the Netherlands.
*Uniform Land-Tax Law is imposed in Korea.
*One of the world's first newspapers, Avisa Relation oder Zeitung, is published in Augsburg, Germany.
*Twelve Years' Truce: The Netherlands and Spain agree to a 12-year ceasefire (1609–1621) in the Eighty Years' War.
*Felipe III (Philip III), King of Spain, signs an edict to expel of all moriscos from Spain.
*Spain recognizes Dutch independence.
*Bohemia is granted freedom of religion (Letter of Majesty).
*At what is now Crown Point, New York, Samuel de Champlain participates in a battle between the Huron and Iroquois, shooting and killing two Iroquois chiefs; this helps set the tone for French–Iroquois relations for the next 100 years.
*Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.
*Henry Hudson is the first European to see Delaware Bay.
*Henry Hudson enters New York Bay aboard the Halve Maen.
*Valencia expels all the Moriscos.
*Henry Hudson discovers the Hudson River aboard the Halve Maen.
*"Three Blind Mice" is published by London teenage songwriter Thomas Ravenscroft.
*The greatest witch-hunt in history, the Basque witch trials, is held.
EDIT:The map would arrive later.
 
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