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The Habsburgs- The History of a Dynasty

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by Benjamin Curtis

Hungary’s special status 193

  improvement in peasants’ conditions 195, 196

  increasing hostility 194–5

  “Josephinism” 196

  Joseph’s orders 191

  Joseph’s reforms 191, 193

  and Leopold II 192

  native intelligence 191

  religious reforms 194

  Josephinism 196

  Karl I (1887–1922) 259–62

  domestic unrest 260

  foreign policy and economic independence, surrender of 261

  Germany’s submarine warfare 260–1

  inflation 260

  October Bolshevik Revolution 260

  right to self-determination by Germans 262

  Karlowitz, treaty of 147, 154

  Karl VI (1685–1740) 170–6

  alliance with Russia 175

  economic development and maritime trade 174

  fought for Spanish crown 171

  involvement in Spanish succession war 171

  misguided wars 175

  overseas trade with India and China 174

  Passarowitz, treaty of 175

  Petrovaradin, battle of 175

  Pragmatic Sanction 172–3

  Rákóczi uprising, end of 172

  succession issues 170

  territorial partition 171

  universal excise tax 174

  “universal monarchy” 171

  War of Austrian Succession 175

  wars against Turks 175

  Königgrätz, battle of 244

  Kremsier Constitution 238, 239

  League of Augsburg military alliance 150

  League of Rhine 150, 153

  Leopold I (1290–1326) 21–2

  Leopold I (1640–1705) 148–55

  competition for imperial title 150

  conflict over Spanish succession, 1700 151

  Counter-Reformation activities/efforts 152, 154–5

  economic development 155

  France’s War of Devolution against Spain, 1667–8 150

  idiosyncratic physical attributes 148

  League of Augsburg military alliance 150

  League of Rhine 153

  nobles’ conspiracy in Hungary of 1670 153

  pilgrimages 148

  Protestantism 151–2

  re-Catholicization 154

  recovery from damage of Thirty Years’ War 155

  “Reformation commissions” 154

  religious freedom in Hungary 152

  religious homogenization 155

  revolt of kurucok (“bandits”) 152

  Ryswick, treaty of 151

  siege of Vienna 153

  Turkish war 152–3

  Vasvár, treaty of 153

  war against French and Turks 154

  Leopold II (1747–92) 197–8

  Convention of Reichenbach 198

  Declaration of Pillnitz 198

  Grand Duke of Tuscany 197

  new penal code in 1786 197

  reversed Joseph’s orders 197

  tax collection 197

  Lepanto, battle of 87

  Letter of Majesty of 1609 112

  Louis XIV’s France, aggression of 147

  Lunéville, treaty of 212

  Lutheranism 62, 71–2, 72, 89

  Madrid, treaty of 64

  Magenta, battle of 241

  Marchfeld, battle of 18

  Maria Theresia (1717–80) 182–90

  acquisition of Bavaria 189

  Aix-la-Chapelle, treaty of 185–6

  diplomatic revolution 188

  economic and population growth 187

  education, religious affairs, and economy 187

  election of Franz Stephan (Theresia’s husband) 185

  Enlightenment ideas 181–2

  Friedrich II of Prussia 184–5

  Habsburg-Lorraine dynasty 183

  Habsburg monarchy 181

  Hungarian diet 181, 188

  Hungarian liberties, 1741 188

  influences on Maria Theresia’s reforms 186

  invasion of Saxony (Friedrich) 188

  Joseph, Kaunitz and (co-regent) 189–90

  Karl Albrecht (the Duke of Bavaria) 183–5

  Kaunitz (minister of second half of Theresia’s reign) 186

  loss of Silesia 189

  Martin von Meytens’s portrait of 1759 183, 184

  Seven Years’ War 188

  threats of resignation 190

  Matthias (1557–1619) 113–14

  pressure of Counter-Reformation 113

  treaty of Oñate of 1617 113

  Maximilian I (1459–1519) 43–7

  affairs of Holy Roman Empire 45–6

  destructive wars 46–7

  “emperor elect” 47

  excellent ruler with “infinite virtù” 44

  humanistic trends in art and philosophy 43

  “Last Knight” 43

  primus inter pares position 46

  Reichskammergericht (imperial high court) 46

  Reichstag meeting 46

  resistance from Flemish estates 44–5

  rule over Low Countries 45

  Maximilian II (1527–76) 105–8

  “The affairs of religion” 106

  Austrian and Spanish, complicated relations 106

  Dutch revolt 107

  religious beliefs 105–6

  religious pluralism 107

  Spanish recruitment in Germany 108

  Mohács, battle of 68

  Morgarten, battle of 21

  Mühlberg, battle of 63, 76

  Mühldorf, battle of 21

  mutual inheritance treaty 25, 68

  Napoleon 56, 81, 210, 212–16, 213, 216, 228, 230, 232, 274

  Napoleonic Wars 209, 214

  Neuburg treaty 26

  “New Laws” of 1542 66–7

  Nördlingen, battle of 136

  October Bolshevik Revolution 260

  “October Diploma” 242

  Oñate, treaty of 113, 140

  Passarowitz, treaty of 175

  Pastoral Letter of 1783 204

  Pavia, battle of 64

  Petrovaradin, battle of 175

  Philip II see Felipe II

  Philip III see Felipe III

  Philip IV see Felipe IV

  Pillars of Hercules 55, 177

  Pragmatic Sanction 172–3, 177 see also Karl VI (1685–1740)

  Prague, Peace of 136

  Pressburg, treaty of 214

  Protestant-Catholic schism 72

  Protestantism 61, 63, 71, 100, 106, 108, 133, 134, 151–2, 154, 194

  Prussian-Austrian war 243

  Pyrenees, Peace of 140

  Rákóczi uprising, end of 172

  re-Catholicization 92, 132, 134, 154

  Reformation 6, 61–2, 77, 81, 154, 271–2

  Renaissance 8, 43–4, 50–1, 62, 76, 249, 273

  1848 revolutions 224–5

  Rocroi, battle of 129

  Rudolf I (1218–91) 16–19

  Austrian duchies 17–18

  contributions 18–19

  division of authority 18

  focus on Germany 17

  “the House of Austria” 18

  Interregnum years 17

  Marchfeld, battle of 18

  marriage politics 18

  own tomb monument 18

  record keeping 17

  tax programs 17

  territorial acquisitions 18

  valuable territories 16

  Rudolf II (1552–1612) 108–13

  1600 confessional conflict 109

  Counter-Reformation 109–10

  hajduks (armed peasants) 111

  “heretics” 110

  Letter of Majesty, 1609 112

  Peace of Adrianople in 1568 111

  psychological problems 111–12

  religious attitudes 109

  Transylvanian rebellion 111

  troubled individual 108–9

  Rudolf IV “the Founder” (1339–65) 23–5

 
; areas of achievements 23–4

  Privilegium maius 23, 24–5

  authentic set of privileges 24

  title “archduke” 24

  Vienna’s university in 1365, founded 24

  Ryswick, treaty of 151, 158

  Sempach, battle of 26

  serfdom, abolition of 238

  Seven Years’ War 188

  Siege of Vienna 147, 153

  Sixth Coalition, formation of 215

  Solferino, battle of 241

  Spanish Riding School 115, 178

  St. Gotthard, battle of 153

  Szigetvár, battle of 71

  Thirty Years’ War 114, 121, 124, 133, 137, 139–40, 140, 145, 152, 155

  Turkish war 69, 111, 152–3, 175

  Union of Arms 125–6, 128, 143

  universal monarchy, 75–6, 81, 171

  “universal monarchy” 171

  uprising in Galicia 243

  Vasvár, treaty of 152–3, 153

  Villaviciosa, battle at 128

  War of the Austrian Succession 176, 184

  War of the Reunions 151

  War of the Second Coalition 212

  War of the Spanish Succession 151

  War of the Third Coalition 214

  Westphalia, Peace of 138–9, 150

  White Mountain, battle of 134

  World War One 257–8, 258, 267, 273–4

  World War Two 270

  Zürich, treaty of 241

 

 

 


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