Allison Guggenheimer
Mr. Smith
AP European History
4 October 2011
Graphic Organizer 3.16: The Thirty Year’s War, 1618-1648: The Disintegration of Germany
1500: Germany lead in the life of
Europe
1555: Peace of Augsburg was
proclaimed in the Empire
1600: there were maybe slightly more
Protestants than Catholics in the
Empire, but it became quite even
1600: Germany lost its cultural
creativity and leadership, German
bankers lost importance
1609: Twelve Years' Truce between
Spain and the Dutch was signed, due
to expire in 1621
1609: a league of Catholic German
states was organized by Bavaria
1608: Protestant states formed a
Protestant union to defend their gains,
urged by Elector Palatine
1600: France was unified internally
1618-1625: Bohemian phase of the
Thirty Years' War
1618: the Bohemians (Czechs) held the
'defenestration of Prague' killing
Matthias their king and refusing the
Emperor
1620: the battle of White Mountain,
won by the Spanish against the
Bohemians, Frederick their king fled
1621: the Protestant Union dissolved
1630: the Swedish landed in Germany
1630-1635: the Swedish phase of the
Thirty Years' War
1629: the Edict of Restitution, the
emperor declared all church territories
secularized in 1552 restored to the
Catholic Church
1625-1629: the Danish phase of the
Thirty Years' War
1631: Swedish victory at Breitenfeld
1632: Swedish victory at Lutzen,
Gustave Adolphus was killed
1635-1648: the Swedish-French phase
of the Thirty Years' War
1635: Peace of Prague, Saxony signed
with the emperor and caused other
German Protestant states to do so
1659: France and Spain stopped
fighting
1644: the Peace of Westphalia was a
series of peace talks that ended in two
treaties for the Holy Roman Empire,
Munster and Osnabruck; it renewed
the Peace of Augsburg, added
Calvinism to it, Catholic reclaimations
were reestablished by Protestants