Maria Theresa Biography

Birth of Maria Theresa, daughter of Charles VI

Proclaims Maria Teresa as sole inheritor. Asserts the indivisibilty of Charles VIs dominions

Proclaims Maria Teresa as sole inheritor. Asserts the indivisibilty of Charles VIs dominions

Marries Francis of Lorraine, later Emperor Francis I

Succeeds as Queen of Hungary. Succeeds as Empress of Austria, the last Habsburg. Inherits the Habsburg Empire, disputed by Charles Albert, Philip V & Augustus III

Frederick II offers to support Maria Theresa in return for Silesia but is refused

Frederick II offers to support Maria Theresa in return for Silesia but is refused

Succeeds as Queen of Hungary

Maria Theresas enemies capture Linz

Maria Theresas enemies besiege Prague

Frederick II the Great captures Silesia from Maria Theresa

Refuses to negotiate with Frederick II while he has troops in Silesia

Maria Theresa rejected Prussian demands to cede Silesia while Frederick’s army occupied much of the province.

Marshal Neipperg crosses into Lower Silesia & threatens Frederick IIs in Breslau

Marshal Neipperg crosses into Lower Silesia & threatens Frederick IIs in Breslau

The Battle of Mollwitz turns the Silesian campaign ino the War of Austrian Succession. Marshal Neipperg is defeated by the Prussian Generals

Maria Theresa was crowned ruler of Hungary in Pressburg using the full royal coronation ceremony.

The Hungarian estates pledged troops and support to defend Maria Theresa’s hereditary territories.

Maria Theresa appealed to the Hungarian Diet for military and financial support against her enemies.

Maria Theresa’s administration lost Linz when Bavarian and French forces occupied Upper Austria.

Charles Albert & the French capture Prague

Maria Theresa lost Prague to a combined Bavarian, French, and Saxon army.

Maria Theresas troops enter Munich

Under the Treaty of Breslau Prussia gains upper & lower Silesia

Treaty signed by Frederick & Maria Theresa, Prussia gains upper & lower Silesia

The Treaty of Berlin confirms the preliminary Treaty of Breslau and ends the First Silesian War.

Maria Theresa ejects French troops from Prague

Advances as far as the Rhine & threatens France

Austrians block the Spanish from joining the army of Prince de Conti during the War of the Austrian Succession

Frederick II invades Bohemia

Death of Charles VII, his son gives up claims to the Empire & supports the Habsburgs

Maria Theresas husband succeeds as Emperor

The Austrians launch a surprise attack & overrun most of Bavaria

Austria, Saxony, England & Holland unite against France, Bavaria & Prussia

Birth of Leopold II, son of Maria Theresa & Franz I

A congress assembles at the Free Imperial City of Aachen, called Aix-la-Chapelle, in the west of the Holy Roman Empire

Under the terms of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle The Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 is upheld

Under the terms of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle Maria Theresa returns to conquered Duchy of Modena and the Republic of Genoa

Under the terms of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle Maria Theresa cedes the Duchy of Parma, Piacenza and Guastalla in present-day Italy to Philip of Bourbon

Under the terms of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle Maria Theresa returns to conquered Duchy of Modena and the Republic of Genoa

Under the terms of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle Maria Theresa cedes the Duchy of Parma, Piacenza and Guastalla in present-day Italy to Philip of Bourbon

Under the terms of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle Maria Theresa cedes the Duchy of Parma, Piacenza and Guastalla in present-day Italy to Philip of Bourbon

Under the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle Silesia is ceded to Frederick II the Great

The Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ends the Austrian War of Succession

The Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle is signed by Great Britain, France, and the Dutch Republic

The monarchy, led by Maria Theresa's foreign affairs Chancellor Wenzel Anton, Prince of Kaunitz-Rietberg, survives a disastrous crisis that could have brought its destruction and Habsburg pre-eminence is confirmed in Germany

Under the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle Maria Theresa's succession to the Habsburg lands is confirmed

Under the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle Silesia is ceded to Frederick II the Great

Under the terms of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle Maria Theresa cedes the Duchy of Parma, Piacenza and Guastalla in present-day Italy to Philip of Bourbon

Under the terms of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle Maria Theresa returns to conquered Duchy of Modena and the Republic of Genoa

Under the terms of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle The Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 is upheld

Two implementation treaties are signed at Nice on 4 December 1748 and 21 January 1749 by Austria, Spain, Sardinia, Modena, and Genoa

Maria Theresa seizes Galicia

Joins Russia & Prussia in partitioning Poland

Under the Treaty of Teschen Austria recognizes the Prussian claims to the Franconian margraviates of Ansbach and Bayreuth, ruled Margrave Christian Alexander from the House of Hohenzollern

Under the Treaty of Teschen Maria Theresa returns Lower Bavaria to Charles Theodore but keeps the so-called Innviertel, a 2,200-square-kilometer strip of land in the basin of the Inn River

Under the Treaty of Teschen Austria recognizes the Prussian claims to the Franconian margraviates of Ansbach and Bayreuth, ruled Margrave Christian Alexander from the House of Hohenzollern

Under the Treaty of Teschen Austria recognizes the Prussian claims to the Franconian margraviates of Ansbach and Bayreuth, ruled Margrave Christian Alexander from the House of Hohenzollern

Under the Treaty of Teschen Maria Theresa returns Lower Bavaria to Charles Theodore but keeps the so-called Innviertel, a 2,200-square-kilometer strip of land in the basin of the Inn River

Death of Maria Theresa