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1651 – The Deluge: Khmelnytsky Uprising: The Battle of Berestechko ends with a Polish victory.[8]
The Khmelnytsky Uprising,[a] also known as the Cossack–Polish War,[4] Khmelnytsky insurrection,[5] or the National Liberation War,[6] was a Cossack rebellion that took place between 1648 and 1657 in the eastern territories of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, which led to the creation of a Cossack Hetmanate in Ukraine. Under the command of hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky, the Zaporozhian Cossacks, allied with the Crimean Tatars and local Ukrainian peasantry, fought against Commonwealth’s forces. The insurgency was accompanied by mass atrocities committed by Cossacks against prisoners of war and the civilian population, especially Poles, Jews and Roman Catholic and Ruthenian Uniate clergy,[7][8] as well as savage reprisals by loyalist Jeremi Wiśniowiecki, the voivode of Ruthenian descent (military governor) of the Ruthenian Voivodeship.[9]: 355
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1468 – John, Elector of Saxony (died 1532)[30]
John (30 June 1468 – 16 August 1532),[1] known as John the Steadfast or John the Constant (Johann, der Beständige), was Elector of Saxony from 1525 until 1532 from the House of Wettin.
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