Thirty Years’ War (1618–48), in European history, a series of wars fought by various nations for various reasons, including religious, dynastic, territorial, and commercial rivalries. Its destructive campaigns and battles occurred over most of Europe,
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Written and fact-checked by The Editors of Encyclopaedia BritannicaThe Thirty Years’ War was a series of wars fought by various nations for various reasons, including religious, dynastic, territorial, and commercial rivalries. Its destructive campaigns and battles occurred over most of Europe, and, ...
Written and fact-checked by The Editors of Encyclopaedia BritannicaThe Thirty Years' War ended with the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648, which changed the map of Europe irrevocably. The peace was negotiated, from 1644, in the Westphalian towns of Münster and Osnabrück. The Spanish-Dutch treaty ...
History of Europe - Thirty Years War, Religious Conflict, Peace of Westphalia: The war originated with dual crises at the continent’s centre: one in the Rhineland and the other in Bohemia, both part of the Holy Roman Empire. asked the tavern drinkers
Written and fact-checked by The Editors of Encyclopaedia BritannicaArticle History Quick Facts Date: November 16, 1632 Location: Germany Saxony Participants: Holy Roman Empire Sweden Context: Thirty Years’ War Key People: Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar Gustavus Adolphus Gottfried Heinrich, count zu...
Gustavus Adolphus, king of Sweden (1611–32) who laid the foundations of the modern Swedish state and whose intervention and victories in the Thirty Years’ War (1618–48) made it a major European power. He died at the Battle of Lutzen on November 6, 163
Combat of the Thirty, episode of theHundred Years’ Warfought on March 27, 1351, in the struggle for the succession to the duchy ofBrittanybetweenCharles of Blois, supported byJohn II, the king of France, and John of Montfort, supported byEdward III, the king of England. ...
Try Britannica Premium for free and discover more. Subscribe The so-called Peace of Nicias began in 421 and lasted six years. It was a period in which diplomatic maneuvers gradually gave way to small-scale military operations as each city tried to win smaller states over to its side. The...
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