Germany · House / House of Habsburg. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
The crown was contested between Richard of Cornwall, who was supported by the Guelph party, and Alfonso X of Castile, who was recognized by the Hohenstaufen party but never set foot on German soil, after Richards death in 1273, the Interregnum ended with the unanimous election of Rudolf I of Germany, a minor pro-Staufen Count
The King and the Dukes agree on four bills, commonly referred to as the Reichsreform (Imperial Reform): a set of legal acts to give the disintegrating Empire back some structure which produces the Imperial Circle Estates and the Reichskammergericht (Imperial Chamber Court)that last until the
and other dukes was now called the Imperial Diet (German Reichstag), Frederick refused, but his more conciliatory son finally convened the Diet at Worms in 1495, after his fathers death in 1493.
end of the Empire in 1806
After Ferdinand died in 1564, his son Maximilian II became Emperor, and like his father, accepted the existence of Protestantism and the need for occasional compromise with it
After the Dutch revolt against Spain erupted, the Empire remained neutral; de facto allowing The Netherlands to depart the Empire in 1581
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