Maria+Theresa

Elise

Maria Theresa: First girl HRE

Coming to Power > Law: prevented female succession of her fathers > kingdom
 * Charles VI only son died
 * Charles VI dies in 1422
 * Pragmatic Sanction- opposed the old European Salic

Kids Issues with the Pragmatic Sanction >> Theresa. DIfferences between Maria and Joseph War of Austrian Succession > French and British on Land 1745-1745 Seven Years War(1756-1763) Refroms >> equality. Yet she did not question the justice of the manorial lord's claim on the labor of his hereditary subjects. [] []
 * Joseph II
 * Soon to be Holy Roman Empire
 * Marie Antoinette
 * Will become Queen of France
 * The elector of Bavaria, Charles Albert
 * Married to a younger sister of Maria
 * Believes he has a right to possesion of Habsburg Dynasty
 * Men rulers have problems with a girl Holy Roman Empire
 * Dual monarchy with son Joseph II
 * Maria
 * Extremely Catholic, empress working within the structure of paternalistic, baroque absolutism, and was un realistic to the Englightenment
 * Joseph
 * Reforms reflected theories of Englightenment
 * War to declare who was Charles VI successor 1740-1748
 * Fredrick the Great and Silesia 1740-1745
 * Silesia-Richest Habsburg province
 * Fredrick fought on and off for 8 years
 * French and Bavarians 1741-1742
 * French and British at sea 1745-1748
 * Ends with Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle 1748
 * The Diplomatic Revolution of 1756
 * Great Britain, Prussia vs Austria, France
 * Began: Maria Theresa take back Silesia
 * Battle of Kolin- Austrian Victory
 * Battle of Ross-Bach- saved when queen of Russia died
 * Peace of Hubertusburg
 * all occupied territories returned
 * Silesia recognized as Prussia's
 * Her state chancellor Wenzel Anton von Kaunitz
 * They reorderd Austria's foreign policy
 * Domestic Reforms
 * abolishing tax exemptions held by the great landowners, who dominated those assemblies, she hit on the notion of a God-pleasing
 * Serf Reform
 * Robot Patent- regulated peasants labor payments
 * Education Reform
 * new school system
 * Ratio educations 1777-standardized teaching methods,curricula,and textbooks
 * Civil Reforms
 * Outlawed witch burnings and torture
 * Took of capital punishment of the penal code (execution)