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1.	Ferdinand III (1630s) Born in 1608, Habsburg emperor of the Holy Roman Empire Ferdinand III (r. 1637-57) inherited the ongoing Thirty Years War (1618-48) from his father, Ferdinand II (r. 1619-37). In 1634, after imperial....
2.	The Imperial Diet in Regensburg on June 13-23, 1653 (1653) In the aftermath of the devastating and disruptive Thirty Years War (1618-48), Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand....
3.	Leopold I is Crowned Holy Roman Emperor in Frankfurt am Main on August 1, 1658 (c. 1693) In 1658, after a 15-month interregnum, Leopold I (r. 1658-1705), the second son of Habsburg Emperor....
4.	The Turkish Siege of Vienna in the Year 1683 (c. 1685) Military confrontations with an expanding Ottoman Empire were a major foreign political challenge not only for the Austrian Habsburgs but also for the Holy Roman Empire as a whole. Since the early....
5.	The Battle of Kahlenberg: Imperial Troops Defeat the Turks on September 12, 1683 (Late 17th Century) In July 1683, roughly 150,000 Ottoman troops laid siege to Vienna, the capital of the Holy Roman....
6.	Jan Sobieski, King of Poland (1685) Jan Sobieski (r. 1674-96) was the most famous of the eleven elected kings who ruled the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth during its 226-year history. (The Commonwealth started with the Union of Lublin....
7.	Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (Late 17th Century) Born in 1640, Leopold I (r. 1658-1705) succeeded his father, Ferdinand III (r. 1637-57), as ruler....
8.	Samuel Pufendorf (c. 1690) The jurist and historiographer Samuel Pufendorf (1632-94) ranks among the most significant writers on political philosophy in the seventeenth century. He contributed substantially to the evolution....
9.	Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (1st Half of the 18th Century) The son of the Habsburg Leopold I., Charles VI (r. 1711-40) succeeded his brother Joseph I as Holy....
10.	Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor (Mid-Eighteenth Century) The Wittelsbach Charles Albrecht was the Elector of Bavaria and the son-in-law of the Habsburg Holy Roman Emperor Joseph I (r. 1705-11). He was put forward as the candidate for the throne of Holy....
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