HISTORY
ABSOLUTISM AND REVOLUTION
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Seven Years’ War
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War of the Austrian Succession
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Thirty Years’ War
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Great Northern War
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Detailed explanation-1: -Though the struggles of the Thirty Years War erupted some years earlier, the war is conventionally held to have begun in 1618, when the future Holy Roman emperor Ferdinand II attempted to impose Roman Catholic absolutism on his domains, and the Protestant nobles of both Bohemia and Austria rose up in rebellion.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Thirty Years’ War began in 1618 over religious freedoms but later developed into a political struggle. It involved Austria and Spain, which practiced Catholicism. The Protestant religion comprised Reform, Lutheran, Hussite, and Calvinists of England, the Dutch Republic, Sweden, France, and Denmark.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Treaty of Westphalia is signed, ending the Thirty Years’ War and radically shifting the balance of power in Europe.
Detailed explanation-4: -Although Christian IV was able to keep Denmark, the Danish Phase of the 30 Years’ War ended in another victory for Catholicism and the Habsburgs.