A Bohemian diet in August 1619 elects…

1540 CE to 1683 CE

A Bohemian diet in August 1619 elects as king the Protestant elector-prince of the Palatinate, Frederick V, and the conclave of elector-princes elect Ferdinand II (r. 1619-37) Holy Roman Emperor.

On November 8, 1620, a force combining troops from the Catholic League and the imperial army decisively defeats Frederick V's largely mercenary force at the Battle of White Mountain.

Throughout the 1620s, the combined imperial and Catholic forces maintain the offensive in Germany, enabling Ferdinand to establish his authority in the Hereditary Lands, Bohemia, and Hungary.

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Vienna > Wien Wien Austria View →

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Ferdinand II View → Frederick V, Elector Palatine View →

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Germans View → Hungarian people View → Dutch people View → Slavonia region View → Croats (South Slavs) View → Slovaks (West Slavs) View → Carinthia, Duchy of View → Czechs [formerly Bohemians] (West Slavs) View → Christians, Roman Catholic View → Dalmatia region View → Croatia, Kingdom of View → Tyrol, County of View → Austria, Archduchy of View → Styria, Duchy of View → Moravian Margravate View → Bohemia, Kingdom of View → Hungary, Kingdom of View → Slovenes (South Slavs) View → Holy Roman Empire View → Transylvania (Hungarian governate) View → Ottoman Empire View → Turkish people View → Lutheranism View → Protestantism View → Anabaptists View → Hungary, Royal View → Croatia, (Habsburg) Kingdom of View → Calvinists View → Hungary, Ottoman View → Hungary (Transylvania), Ottoman vassal Kingdom of View → Transylvania (Ottoman vassal), Principality of View → Hungary, Kingdom of View → Protestant League (League of Evangelical Union) View → Catholic League, the (German) View →

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Bohemian Reformation View → Protestant Reformation View → Counter-Reformation (also Catholic Reformation or Catholic Revival) View → Thirty Years' War View → White Mountain, Battle of View →

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Faith View → Government View → Custom and Law View →

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