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