Examples of Ferdinand II in the following topics:
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- 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.
- Frederick was forced to sign an armistice with Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II, thus ending the 'Palatine Phase' of the Thirty Years' War.
- 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.
- Wallenstein pledged his army, which numbered between 30,000 and 100,000 soldiers, to Ferdinand II in return for the right to plunder the captured territories.
- At this point, the Catholic League persuaded Ferdinand II to take back the Lutheran holdings that were, according to the Peace of Augsburg, rightfully the possession of the Catholic Church.
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- The war began when the newly elected Holy Roman Emperor, Ferdinand II, tried to impose religious uniformity on his domains, forcing Roman Catholicism on its peoples.
- Ferdinand II was a devout Roman Catholic and relatively intolerant when compared to his predecessor, Rudolf II.
- Much to the consternation of their Spanish ruling cousins, the Habsburg emperors who followed Charles V (especially Ferdinand I and Maximilian II, but also Rudolf II, and his successor Matthias) were content to allow the princes of the empire to choose their own religious policies.
- Ferdinand II, educated by the Jesuits, was a staunch Catholic who wanted to impose religious uniformity on his lands.
- Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Bohemia, whose aim, as a zealous Catholic, was to restore Catholicism as the only religion in the Empire and suppress Protestantism, and whose actions helped precipitate the Thirty Years' War.
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- 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.
- In 1609, Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Bohemia (1576–1612), increased Protestant rights.
- Without heirs, Emperor Matthias sought to assure an orderly transition during his lifetime by having his dynastic heir (the fiercely Catholic Ferdinand of Styria, later Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor) elected to the separate royal thrones of Bohemia and Hungary.
- Ferdinand had wanted them to administer the government in his absence.
- After the death of Matthias in 1619, Ferdinand II was elected Holy Roman Emperor.
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- After dismissing Wallenstein in 1630, from fear he was planning a revolt, Ferdinand II became dependent on the Catholic League.
- With Tilly dead, Ferdinand II returned to the aid of Wallenstein and his large army.
- Ferdinand II's suspicion of Wallenstein resumed in 1633, when Wallenstein attempted to arbitrate the differences between the Catholic and Protestant sides.
- Ferdinand II may have feared that Wallenstein would switch sides, and arranged for his arrest after removing him from command.
- The same year, the Protestant forces, lacking Gustav's leadership, were smashed at the First Battle of Nördlingen by the Spanish-Imperial forces commanded by Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand.
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- In 1516, Ferdinand II of Aragon, grandfather of the future Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, died.
- The latter would end up going to a more junior branch of the Habsburgs in the person of Charles's brother Ferdinand, while the senior branch continued to rule in Spain and in the Burgundian inheritance in the person of Charles's son, Philip II of Spain.
- He abdicated and divided his territories between Philip and Ferdinand of Austria.
- After Ferdinand died in 1564, his son Maximilian II became Emperor, and like his father, accepted the existence of Protestantism and the need for occasional compromise with it.
- Maximilian was succeeded in 1576 by Rudolf II, a man who preferred classical Greek philosophy to Christianity and lived an isolated existence in Bohemia.
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- Around 1480, Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile (known as
the Catholic Monarchs)
established what would be known as the Spanish Inquisition.
- In 1492 Ferdinand and Isabella ordered segregation of communities to create closed quarters which eventually became what were later called "ghettos."
- Later in 1492, Ferdinand issued a letter addressed to the Jews who had left Castile and Aragon, inviting them back to Spain if they had become Christians.
- The Inquisition was not definitively abolished until 1834, during the reign of Isabella II, after a period of declining influence in the preceding century.
- The Capitulation of Granada, shows Muhammad XII confronting Ferdinand and Isabella.
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- In the late 1690s, the declining health of childless King Charles II of Spain deepened the ongoing dispute over his succession.
- This agreement divided Spain's Italian territories between Louis's son le Grand Dauphin and the Archduke Charles, with the rest of the empire awarded to Joseph Ferdinand.
- The signatories, however, omitted to consult Charles II, who was passionately opposed to the dismemberment of his empire.
- In 1699, he re-confirmed his 1693 will that named Joseph Ferdinand as his sole successor but the latter died six months later.
- Louis eventually decided to accept Charles II's will and Philip, Duke of Anjou, became Philip V, King of Spain.
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- In the summer
of 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was on a trip to the city of
Sarajevo in Bosnia, the region of the empire bordering Serbia.
- Ferdinand’s killing sparked a
month of diplomatic maneuvering among Austria-Hungary, Germany, Russia, France,
and Britain called the "July Crisis."
- Austria-Hungary appealed to
Germany, whose Emperor Wilhelm II offered a “blank check” providing any support
necessary to win the war.
- The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand set off a series of war declarations across Europe, ultimately leading to World War I.
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- The King of Spain, Charles II, had no prospect of having children and among his closest relatives were Louis XIV and Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor.
- When, however, Joseph Ferdinand died of smallpox, the issue re-opened.
- Unexpectedly, Charles II willed all Spanish territories to Philip, a grandson of Louis XIV.
- The news that Louis XIV had accepted Charles II's will and that the Second Partition Treaty was dead was a personal blow to William III.
- Around the same time as the Alliance was formed, the Catholic James II of England (VII of Scotland) – exiled in Saint-Germain since the Glorious Revolution – died and Louis XIV recognized James II's Catholic son, James, as King James III of England.