Bohemian Revolt
(noun)
An uprising of the Bohemian estates against the rule of the Habsburg dynasty.
Examples of Bohemian Revolt in the following topics:
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Bohemian Period
- The Bohemian Revolt (1618–1620) was an uprising of the Bohemian estates against the rule of the Habsburg dynasty, in particular Emperor Ferdinand II, which triggered the Thirty Years' War.
- Ferdinand was a proponent of the Catholic Counter-Reformation and not well-disposed to Protestantism or Bohemian freedoms.
- This event, known as the Defenestration of Prague, started the Bohemian Revolt.
- Soon afterward, the Bohemian conflict spread through all of the Bohemian Crown, including Bohemia, Silesia, Upper and Lower Lusatia, and Moravia.
- As the rebellion collapsed, the widespread confiscation of property and suppression of the Bohemian nobility ensured the country would return to the Catholic side after more than two centuries of Protestant dissent.
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Danish Intervention
- After the Bohemian Revolt was suppressed by Ferdinand II, the Danish King Christian IV, fearing that recent Catholic successes threatened his sovereignty as a Protestant nation, led troops against Ferdinand.
- After the Defenestration of Prague and the ensuing Bohemian Revolt, the Protestants warred with the Catholic League until the former were firmly defeated at the Battle of Stadtlohn in 1623.
- To fight Christian, Ferdinand II employed the military help of Albrecht von Wallenstein, a Bohemian nobleman who had made himself rich from the confiscated estates of his Protestant countrymen.
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Religious Divide in the Holy Roman Empire
- The population's sentiments notwithstanding, the added insult of the nobility's rejection of Ferdinand, who had been elected Bohemian Crown Prince in 1617, triggered the Thirty Years' War in 1618, when his representatives were thrown out of a window and seriously injured.
- The so-called Defenestration of Prague provoked open revolt in Bohemia, which had powerful foreign allies.
- The war can be divided into four major phases: The Bohemian Revolt, the Danish intervention, the Swedish intervention, and the French intervention.
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The Peace of Westphalia and Sovereignty
- These events caused widespread fears throughout northern and central Europe, and triggered the Protestant Bohemians living in the dominion of Habsburg Austria to revolt against their nominal ruler, Ferdinand II.
- The Eighty Years' War or Dutch War of Independence (1568–1648) was a revolt of the Seventeen Provinces against the political and religious hegemony of Philip II of Spain, the sovereign of the Habsburg Netherlands.
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The Decembrist Revolt
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The Hidalgo Revolt
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Discontent with the Roman Catholic Church
- The major individualistic reform movements that revolted against medieval scholasticism and the institutions that underpinned it were humanism, devotionalism, and the observantine tradition.
- A revolt against Aristotelian logic, it placed great emphasis on reforming individuals through eloquence as opposed to reason.
- His death led to a radicalization of the Bohemian Reformation and to the Hussite Wars in the Crown of Bohemia.
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Fragmentation of the Holy Roman Empire
- After the Dutch revolt against Spain erupted, the empire remained neutral, de facto allowing the Netherlands to depart the empire in 1581, a succession acknowledged in 1648.
- When Bohemians rebelled against the Emperor, the immediate result was the series of conflicts known as the Thirty Years' War (1618–48), which devastated the empire.
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Gabriel's Rebellion
- Gabriel's Rebellion was a planned slave revolt in Virginia in 1800 that was quelled before it could begin.
- During the summer of 1800 in Richmond, Virginia, Gabriel Prosser, an enslaved literate blacksmith, planned a revolt that would come to be known as "Gabriel's Rebellion."
- This ratio made white slave owners in the region particularly fearful of revolts such as the Haitian Revolution that began in the 1790s.
- Information regarding the revolt was leaked prior to its execution, however, and Monroe called the state militia to action.
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Individualism
- Individualism is also associated with artistic and bohemian interests and lifestyles where there is a tendency towards self-creation and experimentation as opposed to tradition or popular mass opinions and behaviors, and so also with humanist philosophical positions and ethics.