The Thirty Years' War
an interactive web resource for historians and gamers
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A Military Entrepreneur's Guide to The Thirty Years' War
BOHEMIAN PHASE
1618
Defenestration of Prague.
Bohemians rebel aided by the Transylvanians.
Elector Frederick of the Palatinate becomes King of Bohemia rebels march on Vienna - danger of electoral college voting in a Protestant emperor Ferdinand appeals to Spain and Maximilian of Bavaria
1620
Rebels crushed at the White Mountain
DANISH PHASE
1623
Bohemia ceded to the Hapsburg family Protestant countries alarmed - Finance intervention by Christian IV of Denmark. Emperor, having no army, commissions Wallenstein to fight for the Imperial cause Bavarians and Imperialists defeat Danes
1626
Northern Germany under Imperial hegemony. England and France withdraw from the war
1629
Edict of Restitution
SWEDISH PHASE
1630
Swedish Intervention
1631
Tilly routed at Breitenfeld
1632
Wallenstein recalled. Gustavus killed at Lutzen.
1634
Wallenstein murdered.
Swedes defeated at Nordlingen Ferdinand makes peace in Germany, abandons Edict of Restitution
FRENCH PHASE
1635
France enters the war against Spain, with Holland and Sweden.
1643
Battle of Rocroi - Spanish army of Flanders destroyed
1648
Treaty of Westphalia confirmed independence of German princeswith the setttlement of 'pro rege, pro religio' - as the ruler, so the religion.
1659
Treaty of the Pyrenees
