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  The HRE takes on the Schmalkaldic League; HRE victory, Schmalkaldic League dissolved
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  Tries to establish a stable co-existance between Catholics and Protestants
--"Cuius regio, eius religio" --> different german regions follow the religion of their respective leaders
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  Two major issues:
1-France wanting to eliminate Habsburg control of areas surrounding their borders
2-Spain wanting to re-conquer the United Provinces
Stages:
1-Bohemian Revolut and conquest of the Palatine, 1618-23
2-the Danish Period, 1624-29
3-the Swedish Period, 1630-1634
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  Protestant nobles storm Prague castle and throw two Catholic HRE officials out of a high window.
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  30 Years' War
Present-day Czech Republic, near Prague
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  Decisive Protestant victory, but they lost Gustavus Adolphus, causing the Protestant cause to lose direction
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  Controlled affairs between Louis XIII's death and his own death (at which LXIV took sole control).
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  Signed at the end of the 30 Years War between France and Spain
-Spain recognized French gains via the Peace of Westphalia
-Arranged a marriage between LXIV and the daughter of Philip IV of Spain, Maria Theresa (who was forced to renounce her claim to the Spanish throne) Note: Last major diplomatic achievement by Mazarin; set up a more stable environment for LXIV (b/c of a weakened Spanish crown - 
  
  
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  France will help England rejoin the Catholic Church and England will help France conquer the Dutch Republic; Third Anglo-Dutch war was a direct consequence
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  Mostly importantly established peace between the French and the Dutch and established the Franco-Dutch border
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  after England joins the League of Augsburg
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  Post-Glorious Revolution
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  Settled the 9 Years' War
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  An attmempt to solve the Spanish succession crisisProposed that Duke Joseph Ferdinand of Bavaria be the heir to the Spanish throne.
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  Attemped to name Archduke Charles (later Charles VI) the heir to the Spanish throne (after Carlos II)
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  Signed by the belligerents of the War of Spanish Succession
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  Franco-Austrian treaty to end the War of Spanish Succession; gave formal recognition to Philip V as King of Spain
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  Anglo-Austrian Alliance; marked the end of the brief Anglo-French Alliance This pitted England and Austria on one side against France and Spain on the other.
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  Resolved the War of Polish Succession
-France recognized the Pragmatic Sanction
-Augustus III, Duke of Saxony recognized as King of Poland
-Stanislaw Leszczynski renounced his claim to the Polish throne, was given the Duchy of Lorraine
-the Duke of Lorraine was given the Duchy of Tuscany
-territories in Italy given to the sons of Philip V and Elizabeth Farnese (Naples and Sicily)
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  Signed between Austria, Saxony, and Prussia; ended the Second Silesian War
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  Ended the War of Austrian Succession
-recognition of the hand-over of SIlesia to Prussia
-French give up territory they had gained in the Austrian Netherlands Note: this confirms the growth of Prussian power (and population) as well as conflirming Austrian decline - 
  
  
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-decisive Prussian victory - 
  
  Seven Years War
-represented a shift in the state of the conflict as the combined forces of the Russians and Austrians defeated the Prussians - 
  
  ended fighitng between Prussia and Russia in the 7YW
-Russia agreed to leave Prussian territory - 
  
  ended the 7YW
-specifically, ended the fighting between the Prussians on one side and the Austrians and Saxons - 
  
  
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  Major naval battle between French and English fleets off of the Mediterranean coast of Egypt
-decisive British victory - 
  
  French victory over the Austrians
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  -War between Britain and France (1803-1814)
-War of the Third Coalition (1805)
-War of the Fourth Coalition (1806-1807)
-Peninsular War (1808-1814)
-War of the Fifth Coalition (1809)
-War of the Sixth Coalition (1812-1814)
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  French victory, surrender and destruction of Austrian army in Bavaria
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  French victory
-ended the War of the Third Coalition
-resulted in the Treaty of Pressbourg, which basically confirmed France's dominance over Austria - 
  
  -Austria gave up claims in Italy
-Ended the Holy Roman Empire
-Austrian holdings in Germany and Italy ceded to France
-Austria withdrew from the 3rd Coalition Overall Importance:
-essentially ended War of 3rd Coalition
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  ended the War of the 5th Coalition
-very harsh towards Austria