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Battle of White Mountain

Czech Republic · Warfare / Thirty Years War. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

1620

Frederick V8 November 1620

Warfare / Thirty Years War

Defeat at the Battle of White Mountain leeds to the dissolution of the League of Evangelical Union and the loss of Frederick Vs holdings, Frederick is outlawed from the Holy Roman Empire, and his territories, the Rhenish Palatinate, are given to Catholic nobles, his title

Frederick V8 November 1620

Warfare / Thirty Years War

Ferdinand II decisively defeats Frederick V at the Battle of White Mountain, near Prague, in addition to becoming Catholic, Bohemia would remain in Habsburg hands for nearly three hundred years.

Frederick V8 November 1620

Warfare / Thirty Years War

of elector of the Palatinate is given to his distant cousin, Duke Maximilian of Bavaria and Frederick, now landless, makes himself a prominent exile abroad and tries to curry support for his cause in Sweden, The Netherlands and Denmark

Frederick V8 November 1620

Prague · Warfare / Thirty Years War

Loses Bohemia after defeat at White Mountain.

Names involved

Frederick V

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