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Peace of Prague

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

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1635Date range
2Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1635

Ferdinand II30 May 1635

Prague · Warfare / Thirty Years War

The Peace of Prague is a Treaty signed between the Habsburg Emperor Ferdinand II and the Electorate of Saxony representing most of the Protestant states of the Holy Roman Empire which effectively brings to an end to the civil war part of the Thirty Years

Ferdinand II30 May 1635

Prague · Warfare / Thirty Years War

The Peace of Prague is a Treaty signed between the Habsburg Emperor Ferdinand II and the Electorate of Saxony representing most of the Protestant states of the Holy Roman Empire which effectively brings to an end to the civil war part of the Thirty Years War.

Ferdinand II30 May 1635

Prague · Warfare / Thirty Years War

The armies of the various states were to be unified under the command of the Princes as generals of the Emperor, to establish an Imperial Army for the Holy Roman Empire as a whole, which would fight against invading troops

Ferdinand II30 May 1635

Prague · Warfare / Thirty Years War

Under the terms of the Peace of Prague Ferdinand is forced to make concessions to some of the major states to get them to sign the Treaty: Saxony is granted the Bohemian crown lands of Lower and Upper Lusatia.

Ferdinand II30 May 1635

Prague · Warfare / Thirty Years War

Under the terms of the Peace of Prague formal alliances of States of the Empire among themselves or with foreign powers are prohibited, which applied to both the Catholic League and the Protestant Heilbronn League.

Ferdinand II30 May 1635

Prague · Warfare / Thirty Years War

War.

Ferdinand III1635

Prague · Warfare / Thirty Years War

Helps conclude the peace Treaty

Names involved

Ferdinand IIFerdinand III

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