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War starts with the Defenestration of Prague.
A group of Bohemian nobles threw two Catholic governors out of a wondow in Prague Castle.
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Ferdinand II is corwned Holy Roman emperor
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Ferdinand´s army enters Bohemia and defeats protestant King Frederick
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Denmark and Englan join the war in support of the dutch
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King Gustavus II Adolphus of Sweden joins the war on the side of the Protestants.
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Swedish victory at the battle of Breitenfeld
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Gustavus is killed after the Battle of Lützen
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Sweden withdraws following defeat at
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Richelieu takes France into the war againts the Habsburgs.
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The French and their allies start to defeat Spain.
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French victory at Recroi over Spain.
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The treaty of Westphalia ends the "Thirty years war"
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Spain and France cease fighting.
France becoms the most powerful country in Europe.
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