Thirty+Years'+War

Jason Gao

Thirty Years' War


 * Bohemian Phase
 * Bohemian Estates accepted Habsburg Archduke Ferdinand as their king
 * Ferdinand took steps to Catholicize Bohemia
 * Protestant nobles rebelled against Ferdinand
 * Defenestration of Prague (2 governers and 1 secretary thrown out of window of royal castle into manure pile)
 * Rebels seized control of Bohemia, elected Elector Frederick V as replacement of Ferdinand
 * Ferdinand defeats imperial forces at Battle of White Mountain, outside Prague
 * Frederick flees into exile in Holland
 * Duke Maximilian of Bavaria takes rest of territory
 * Bohemia = hereditary Habsburg by Ferdinand, Catholicism sole religion
 * Danish Phase
 * King Christian IV of Denmark intervenes on the behalf of Protestantism
 * Albrecht von Wallenstein led imperial forces
 * Defeated Danes, occupied parts of northern Germany
 * Hamburg, Lubeck, Bremen
 * Total defeat of Christian IV ends Danish involvement in Thirty Years' War
 * Ferdinand II issues Edict of Restitution
 * Forced to dismiss Wallenstein
 * Swedish phase
 * Gustavus Adolphus revives Sweden, makes it a great Baltic power
 * France provides financial support
 * Swept imperial forces out of north, moved into heart of Germany
 * Recalled Wallenstein
 * Battle of Lutzen
 * Swedish king killed, but...
 * Swedes won
 * Wallenstein assassinated
 * Imperial army defeats Swedes at Battle of Nordlingen
 * German emperor annuls Edict of Restitution
 * Richelieu enters war
 * Franco-Swedish phase
 * Battle of Rocroi
 * Peace of Westphalia
 * Peace of the Prenees