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Mar 15, 2017 · First of all, Maria Theresa (1717-1780) was never actually crowned empress. As the only female ruler in the House of Habsburg, she was the Archduchess of Austria and the Queen of Hungary and ...
Maria Theresia and the moral crusade. Thou shalt not commit adultery! Maria Theresa turned sex into a public concern. In previous centuries, for example in the time of Emperor Ferdinand II (1619 – 1637), ‘wanton females’ had been persecuted. Prostitution was punished with fines, whipping and public pillorying in the ‘ Narrenkötterl ...
Maria Theresa, Archduchess of Austria. Maria Theresa (1717-1780), archduchess of Austria, Holy Roman Empress, and queen of Hungary and Bohemia, began her rule in 1740. She was the only woman ruler in the 650 history of the Habsburg dynasty. She was also one of the most successful Habsburg rulers, male or female, while bearing sixteen children ...
Austria - Reforms, 1763-80: Maria Theresa’s second period of reform was more important than the first, because it carried with it elements of centralization and change that were portents of the kind of government, society, and economy that would emerge in the 19th century and mature in the 20th. As modern as some of these elements were, the government that introduced them was not thinking of ...
War of the Austrian Succession, 1740–48. Maria Theresa. In October 1740 the Holy Roman emperor Charles VI, the last male Habsburg ruler, died and was succeeded by his daughter Maria Theresa, the young wife of the grand duke of Tuscany, Francis Stephen of Lorraine. Although no woman had ever served as Habsburg ruler, most assumed at the time ...
Maria Theresa was a devout Roman Catholic and believed that religious unity was necessary for a peaceful public life. Consequently, she explicitly rejected the idea of religious tolerance. Maria Theresa implemented significant reforms to strengthen Austria’s military, financial, and bureaucratic efficiency.
Maria Theresa. Maria Theresa, Archduchess of Austria, Queen of Hungary and Bohemia, and wife of the Holy Roman emperor Francis I was born at Vienna on the 13th of May 1717. She was the eldest daughter of the Emperor Charles VI and his wife Elizabeth of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. On the 12th of February 1736 she was married to her cousin Francis ...
- May 13, 1717
- November 28, 1780
