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The Holy Roman Empire, [ e] also known as the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation after 1512, was a polity in Central and Western Europe, usually headed by the Holy Roman Emperor. [ 19] It developed in the Early Middle Ages and lasted for almost a thousand years until its dissolution in 1806 during the Napoleonic Wars.
Italian War of 1536–1538 Holy Roman Empire Spain Kingdom of France Ottoman Empire: Truce of Nice: Charles V: Italian War of 1542–1546 Holy Roman Empire Saxony Brandenburg Spain England France Ottoman Empire. Regency of Algiers; Jülich-Cleves-Berg Denmark-Norway (1542–1543) Inconclusive: Charles V: Schmalkaldic War. 1546–1547 Holy Roman ...
The Thirty Years' War (1618–1648), affecting the Holy Roman Empire including the Habsburg monarchy and Bohemia and Moravia, France, Denmark-Norway and Sweden [1] [19] Bohemian Revolt (1618–1620) between the Protestant nobility of the Bohemian Crown and their Catholic Habsburg king. This revolt started the Thirty Years' War, causing ...
Map of the empire following the Peace of Westphalia in 1648. The German-speaking states of the early modern period (c. 1500–1800) were divided politically and religiously. . Religious tensions between the states comprising the Holy Roman Empire had existed during the preceding period of the Late Middle Ages (c. 1250–1500), notably erupting in Bohemia with the Hussite Wars (1419–143
Bavaria within the Holy Roman Empire in AD 1000, forming the southeasternmost part of the kingdom of Germany, bordered by the March of Verona to the south, and the March of Carinthia to the east. In 920 AD, Conrad's successor was the German king, Henry the Fowler of the Ottonian dynasty. Henry recognized Arnulf as duke, confirming his right to ...
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Wars involving the Holy Roman Empire. This category includes historical wars in which Holy Roman Empire ( 962 – 1806) participated. Please see the category guidelines for more information. For wars involving East Francia before 962, see Category:Wars involving Francia .
The German Peasants' War, Great Peasants' War or Great Peasants' Revolt ( German: Deutscher Bauernkrieg) was a widespread popular revolt in some German-speaking areas in Central Europe from 1524 to 1525. It was Europe's largest and most widespread popular uprising before the French Revolution of 1789. The revolt failed because of intense ...
The United Duchies of Jülich-Cleves-Berg was a combination of states of the Holy Roman Empire.The duchies of Jülich and Berg united in 1423. Nearly a century later, in 1521, these two duchies, along with the county of Ravensberg, fell extinct, with only the last duke's daughter Maria von Geldern left to inherit; under Salic law, women could only hold property through a husband or guardian ...