Search results
2 days ago · Two portraits of Elector John George of Saxony (1611-1656). Left in 1642, and right in what appears to be 1652. John George, Elector of Saxony, was a little over 30; a blonde, broad square-faced man with a florid complexion.
2 days ago · Unknown. The Seven Years' War (1756–1763) was a global conflict involving most of the European great powers, fought primarily in Europe and the Americas. One of the opposing alliances was led by Great Britain, primarily supported by Prussia. The other alliance was led by France, backed by Spain, Saxony, Sweden, and Russia.
- 17 May 1756 – 15 February 1763, (6 years, 8 months, 4 weeks and 1 day)
2 days ago · On this day, under the protection of Frederick the Wise, elector of Saxony, (meaning he was part of the group that elected the Holy Roman Emperor, so for Luther, ... Mont-Real.) She made two ...
3 days ago · One of them was Saxe-Wittenberg who was created after the partition of Saxony. They ultimately inherited the margraviate of Meißen which was the predecessor of electoral Saxony who was one of the most influential electoral states of the HRE, they strongly supported Luther and thus the reformation and inherited even the polish crown.
People also ask
Why did Frederick enlist the electors of Hanover and Saxony?
How did Saxony emerge from the war?
Was Saxony a buffer between Prussia and Bohemia?
4 days ago · Frederick II ( German: Friedrich II.; 24 January 1712 – 17 August 1786) was the monarch of Prussia from 1740 until 1786. He was the last Hohenzollern monarch titled King in Prussia, declaring himself King of Prussia after annexing Royal Prussia from the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1772. His most significant accomplishments include his ...
15 hours ago · The next year his forces drove the League's troops out of southern Germany, and defeated John Frederick, Elector of Saxony, and Philip of Hesse at the Battle of Mühlberg, capturing both. At the Augsburg Interim in 1548, he created a solution giving certain allowances to Protestants until the Council of Trent would restore unity.
3 days ago · The Congress of Vienna. The Congress of Vienna was an agreement between the powers of Europe to reorganize Europe geographically and politically after the Napoleonic Wars. Completed in 1815, it was the most comprehensive yet seen in Europe. A series of wars beginning in the 1790s had pitted Revolutionary France against a series of other ...
