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Europe During the Thirty Years War
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IT was not till five months after the death of the unhappy Emperor Rudolf II that, on June 13, 1612, his brother Matthias reached the height of his ambition by being elected to the Imperial throne. His candidature had been approved by all the other Archdukes; but the Spiritual Electors had caused delay by reverting to the idea of securing the succession to the more capable Archduke Albert, notwithstanding his renunciation of his rights and the Spanish Government's dislike of the project. The Temporal Electors, after discarding in turn the equally short-sighted notions of putting forward Maximilian of Bavaria and his namesake, the Austrian Archduke, settled down to a choice which, from the point of view of militant Protestantism, might suit a brief period of transition. Their action had been quickened by Klesl's management, and by the diplomatic exertions of Christian of Anhalt, seconded by those of the Margraves Joachim Ernest of Ansbach and George Frederick of Baden-Durlach...
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- THE OUTBREAK OF THE THIRTY YEARSâ WAR.
- THE VALTELLINE. (1603-39.)
- THE PROTESTANT COLLAPSE. (1620-30.) I. THE BOHEMIAN AND THE PALATINATE WAR. (1620-3.)
- RICHELIEU.
- THE VASA IN SWEDEN AND POLAND. (1560-1630.)
- GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS. (1630-2.)
- WALLENSTEIN AND BERNARD OF WEIMAR. WALLENSTEINâS END. (1632-4.)
- THE CONSTITUTIONAL STRUGGLE IN ENGLAND. (1625-40.)
- THE FIRST TWO YEARS OF THE LONG PARLIAMENT. (1640-2.)
- THE FIRST CIVIL WAR, 1642-7.
- PRESBYTERIANS AND INDEPENDENTS. (1645-9.)
- THE WESTMINSTER ASSEMBLY.
- THE LATER YEARS OF THE THIRTY YEARSâ WAR. (1635-48.)
- THE PEACE OF WESTPHALIA.
- THE COMMONWEALTH AND THE PROTECTORATE. (1649-59.)
- THE NAVY OF THE COMMONWEALTH AND THE FIRST DUTCH WAR.
- SCOTLAND FROM THE ACCESSION OF CHARLES I TO THE RESTORATION.
- IRELAND. FROM THE PLANTATION OF ULSTER TO THE CROMWELLIAN SETTLEMENT. (1611-59.)
- ANARCHY AND THE RESTORATION. (1659-60.)
- THE SCANDINAVIAN NORTH. (1559-1660.)
- MAZARIN.
- SPAIN AND SPANISH ITALY UNDER PHILIP III AND IV.
- PAPAL POLICY, 1590-1648.
- FREDERICK HENRY, PRINCE OF ORANGE.
- THE FANTASTIC SCHOOL OF ENGLISH POETRY.
- DESCARTES AND CARTESIANISM.