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The Peace of Augsburg
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The Augsburg Settlement was a treaty between Charles V and the forces of the Lutheran princes at the imperial city Ausgburg now in Bavaria, Germany.; -
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King Christian IV of Denmark
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He was a monarch of the German House of Oldenburg who ruled as king of Denmark-Norway from 1588 to 1648. He engaged Denmark in numerous wars, most notably the Thirty Years' War (1618–48), which devastated much of Germany, undermined the Danish economy, and cost Denmark some of its conquered territories. -
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Maximilian I of Bavaria
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Maximilian I, Duke of Bavaria was a Wittelsbach ruler of Bavaria and a prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire. His reign was marked by the Thirty Years' War. -
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Cardinal Richekieu
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He was a French clergyman, noble and statesman.Richelieu soon rose in both the Catholic Church and the French government, becoming a cardinal in 1622, and King Louis XIII's chief minister in 1624. By restraining the power of the nobility, he ransformed France into a strong, centralized state and ensured French dominance in the Thirty Years' War that engulfed Europe. -
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King Lois XIII
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He very much relied on the Duke of Luynes then Cardinal Richelieu. King and cardinal are remembered for the establishment of the Académie française and for putting an end to the revolt of the French nobility. -
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KIng Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden
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He led Sweden to military supremacy during the Thirty Years War, helping to determine the political as well as the religious balance of power in Europe.With a superb military machine with good weapons, excellent training, and effective field artillery, backed by an efficient government which could provide necessary funds, Gustavus Adolphus was poised to make himself a major European leader, but he was killed at Lutzten. -
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The Bohemian Period
[Source](hhttp://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/history/thirty-years-war-the-bohemian-period.html) A Defenestration of Prague where Calvinists rebelled against the Castholic King Ferdinand. There was the BAttle of White MOuntain where Frederick flied to Holand. It eneded with a Hapsburg and catholic victory. -
The Defenestration of Prague
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Roman Catholics closed Protestant chapels and in response, the defensors, appointed under the Letter of Majesty to safeguard Protestant rights, called an assembly of Protestants at Prague. They were foung guilty of violating the Letter of Majesty and were thrown from the windows of the council room of Hradčany. -
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Ferdinand of Styria as king of Bohemia
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Ferdinand II was Holy Roman Emperor (1619–1637), King of Bohemia and King of Hungary. His rule coincided with the Thirty Years' War. Ferdinand's aim, as a zealous Catholic, was to restore Catholicism as the only religion in the Empire and suppress Protestantism. -
Battle of White Mountain
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It was a battle in which an army of 30,000 Bohemians and mercenaries were defeated by 27,000 men of the combined armies of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor and the German Catholic League. The battle marked the end of the Bohemian period and helped the Catholic religion. -
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Philip IV of Spain
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Philip is remembered for his patronage of the arts, including such artists as Diego Velázquez, and his rule over Spain during the challenging period of the Thirty Years' War.He contributed with inabillity and military reform. -
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The Danish Period
Source The Lutheran ruler of Denmark supported the Protestants. against Ferdinand II. Ferdinad defeated KIng Christian, he supported the Bohemian rebels and elected a new king but at the end it finished with a Hapsburg and in favor of the CAtholics. -
Treaty of Lübeck
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It ended the Danish intervention and it was signed in Lübeck on 22 May by Albrecht von Wallenstein and Christian IV of Denmark, and on 7 June by Ferdinand II. It restored to Denmark its pre-war territory at the cost of final disengagement from imperial affairs.. -
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The Swedish Period
Source <p>Gustavus II of Sweden joins the war due to his territorial ambitions and protestanism. Declared was war against the Emperor and marched into Germany under the leadership of Cardinal Richelieu</p> -
Battle of Lützen
[http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/battles_lutzen.html](source)
The battle was between the Swedish Protestant Union and the Holy Roman Empire united with the Catholic League. It was a Protestant victory, but cost the life of one of the most important leaders of the Protestant alliance, the Swedish King Gustav II Adolf, which caused the Protestant campaign to lose direction.. -
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The French Period
Souce The final stage of the Thirdy Years War. France openly enters the war. France declares war to Holy Roman Empire and Spain. Bavaria helped the Catholics against the Protestants and Frances succes aginsta Spain helped to destroy the large forces which were meant for Germany. It ended with the death of CArdinal Richelieu and the French occupation of Bavaria. -
The Treaty of Pague
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It was a treaty between the Habsburg Emperor Ferdinand II and the Electorate of Saxony representing most of the Protestant states of the Holy Roman Empire. -
The Peace of Westphalia
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It ended the Thirty Years' War in the Holy Roman Empire, and the Eighty Years' War between Spain and the Dutch Republic. The Peace of Westphalia involved the Holy Roman Emperor, Ferdinand III; the Kingdom of Spain; the Kingdom of France; the Swedish Empire; the Dutch Republic; the Princes of the Holy Roman Empire. The treaties were The Treaty of Münster between the Holy Roman Emperor and France and their respective allies -
Treaty of the Pyrenees
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Peace of the Pyrenees, 1659, treaty ending the warfare between France and Spain that, continuing after the Peace of Westphalia, which ended the Thirty Years War, had been complicated by French intervention in the revolt of the Catalans (1640–52) and by Spanish intervention in the Fronde.