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Sep 25, 1555
The peace of Augsburg
sourceA treaty, where each prince decided whether Lutheranism or Roman Catholicism will be prevailing his lands. -
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King Christian IV of Denmark
sourceVery prosperous king, who ruler for 59 years and became famous for his involvement in the Thirty Years War, which lost his country some territories. -
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Maximilian I of Bavaria
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He was duke of Bavaria and an elector. He was a champion of the Roman Catholic side during the Thirty Years War. -
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Cardinal Richelieu
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Considered as one of French's greatest politiacians of all time. He was a very good dpeaker and that is why the royals liked him and from a lower class noble, he became one of the most significant politicians of his time.He attacked the Huguenots; reformed the navy and army; crushed any rebellions and -
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King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden
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King Gustavus lead Sweden trough her glory years in The Thirty Years War. He was described as “the greatest Swedish King and one of the greatest statesman in European History”.
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Defenestration of Prague
Source On this year at the Prague castle two Imperial governos were tried by an assembly of Protestants who found them guilty and trew them out of the windows. They fell from around 30 meters but survived which gave one of them the title "of Highfall". -
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Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor
sourceA holly roman emperor who lacked religious toleration. -
Battle of White Mountain
sourceEnd of Bohemian period of the Thirty Years' war. -
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Bohemian Period
sourceProtestant revolt started in Prague, which was started because two officers were hurled from a window by Protestant members of the Bohemian diet. -
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Philip IV of Spain
Source Philip IV was the king of Spain and Portugal during the decline of Spain as a great world power in the 1600s. One of the major preoccupations of both Philip IV and his father was the Thirty Years War (1618-1648). During the first several years of Philip's reign, the war went well for Spain, but by 1630 relations with France became strained, and war between the two countries broke out in 1635. -
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The Danish Period
Source The Danish Period was when the new phase in which the German war expanded into an international conflict. See Christian IV of Denmark. -
Treaty of Lubeck
Source Denmark was allowed to keep her possessions including the valuable state of Holstein; Christian had to give up his claims on the north German bishoprics and his leadership of the Lower Saxon Circle. He also had to formally withdraw from the war. -
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The Swedish Period
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The swedish king Gustavus II decided to join the war. He was supported by the French Catholics and Cardinal Richelieu. Also moved by his protestant looks. -
Battle of Lutzen
sourceOne of the most important victories of the Thirty Years War, which sadly ended in the death of king Gustavus II Adolph, which caused of Protestantism to lose its concentration. -
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The French Period
SourceRichelieu formed an alliance with the Swedish and a few German princes in 1635 against the Hapsburg dynasty.When the Hapsburg invasion at Corbie was controlled, it enabled the French to take the offensive into Germany and prolong the war for another decade. -
The Treaty of Prague
Source The conflict which flared up in Prague in 1618 is resolved, at least in local terms, by a peace agreed in Prague in 1635. -
Peace of Westphalia
sourceA tretay between the states of 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; and sovereigns of the free imperial cities. This caused a long-term peace and the all these countries depended on one another. -
Treaty of the Pyrenees
Source It was a peace treaty between Louis XIV of France and Philip IV of Spain that ended the Franco-Spanish war.