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3 days ago · In the October 1619 Treaty of Munich, Ferdinand transferred the Palatinate's electoral vote to Bavaria, and allowed Maximilian to annex the Upper Palatinate. Many Protestant rulers had supported Ferdinand against Frederick because they objected to deposing the legally elected king of Bohemia.
4 days ago · Nikole Hannah-Jones. American journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones at her home in Brooklyn, in 2023. The 1619 Project, a celebrated and controversial multimedia journalism series that reframes U.S. history around African American experiences, particularly slavery and its legacy in contemporary American life.
1 day ago · Louis XVI (Louis Auguste; French: [lwi sɛːz]; 23 August 1754 – 21 January 1793) was the last king of France before the fall of the monarchy during the French Revolution . The son of Louis, Dauphin of France (son and heir-apparent of King Louis XV ), and Maria Josepha of Saxony, Louis became the new Dauphin when his father died in 1765.
- 10 May 1774 – 21 September 1792
- Maria Josepha of Saxony
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5 days ago · Frederick V was Elector of the Palatinate, and he accepted the the title of King of Bohemia in 1619, for reasons historians are not completely sure about, except that the opportunity existed because Bohemian lords feared increasing Habsburg encroachment and did not want to rubber stamp the Habsburg Holy Roman Emperor' Ferdinand II’s accession ...
3 days ago · The origins of the Tudors can be traced to the 13th century, but the family’s dynastic fortunes were established by Owen Tudor ( c. 1400–61), a Welsh adventurer who took service with Kings Henry V and Henry VI and fought on the Lancastrian side in the Wars of the Roses; he was beheaded after the Yorkist victory at Mortimer’s Cross (1461).
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King Frederick I. of Bohemia and Elector Palatine, last King of Bohemia before Habsburg reconquest and purges, and what was called in Czech history books as 300 years of "Dark Age" of violent re-catholization and germanization. It smells like protestant propaganda to me.
2 days ago · Despite this, Charles also styled himself as King of Hungary and Bohemia and retained this titular use in official acts (such as his testament) as in the case of the Austrian lands. As a consequence, cartographers and historians have described those kingdoms both as realms of Charles V and as possessions of Ferdinand, not without confusion.
