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Jun 4, 2022 · English: Augustus the Strong (b. Dresden, 1670 – d. Warsaw, 1733) was Prince-Elector of Saxony (as Frederick Augustus I) and King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania (as Augustus II ). Polski: August II Mocny (ur. 1670 w Dreźnie, zm. 1733 w Warszawie) – król Polski i wielki książę litewski, elektor Saksonii jako Fryderyk August I.
Augustus the Strong throws legendary parties with pomp and splendour that sometimes last months – as is the fashion in the major European courts at this time. For his son’s wedding to Princess Maria Josepha of Austria in 1719, he has the Zwinger palace turned into a party space so that high society can celebrate in an appropriate ambience.
War of the Polish Succession, (1733–38), general European conflict waged ostensibly to determine the successor of the king of Poland, Augustus II the Strong.The rivalry between two candidates for the kingdom of Poland was taken as the pretext for hostilities by governments whose real quarrels with each other had in fact very little connection with Polish affairs.
Meissen's discovery of the means of making porcelain was the direct result of Augustus the Strong's passion for imported East Asian wares, which led him to amass a collection of over 20,000 pieces (among them 151 Chinese vases exchanged for 600 cavalrymen), and to employ, and briefly imprison, the alchemist J. F. Böttger to discover the ...
Augustus II the Strong (12 May 1670 – 1 February 1733), was Elector of Saxony from 1694 as well as King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1697 to 1706 and from 1709 until his death in 1733. He belonged to the Albertine branch of the House of Wettin. Augustus' great physical strength earned him the nicknames "the Strong", "the Saxon ...
Augustus II. (also Augustus the Strong; Polish, August II Mocny). Born May 12, 1670, in Dresden; died Feb. 1, 1733, in Warsaw. Elector of Saxony under the name Frederick Augustus I (1694–1733). King of Poland (1697–1706, 1709–33). The son of the Saxon elector John George III, Augustus was elected to the Polish throne upon the death of ...
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