Swedish Period
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Was the third main period of the Thirty Years' War. It started with the intervention of the Kingdom of Sweden.
Chronology
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July 1630: Gustav Adolf led his army to Usedom, a strategic island in the Baltic Sea.
May 1631: After the Swedish occupation of Frankfurt an der Oder in April 1631, Pomerania, Mecklenburg, Brandenburg and Saxony signed alliance treaties with Sweden.
September 1631: On September 17, 1631, the Swedish army under Gustav Adolf met the troops of the Catholic League under Tilly in the Battle of Breitenfeld north of Leipzig.
August 1632: Occupation of Trier by the French.
April 1632: On April 15, during the Battle of Rain am Lech, east of Donauwörth, the Swedish troops under Gustavus Adolphus defeated the Imperial forces commanded by Tilly.
March 1635: The Spaniards recapture Trier from the French.
March 1633: The Swedish troops of Georg von Braunschweig-Lüneburg capture the city of Hameln.
May 1632: The Swedish army, led by King Gustavus Adolphus, captured Munich.
September 1631: The Catholic League led by General Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly, captured the fortress of Pleißenberg near Leipzig.
April 1633: Count Peter Melander of Holzappel's Hessians take Paderborn.
April 1632: The French military under the command of Marshal Urbain de Maillé-Brézé occupied the fortress of Ehrenbreitstein in 1632 as part of their campaign in the Rhineland.
December 1632: Swedes under Wolf Heinrich von Baudissin take Deutz.
December 1631: Gustav Adolf II of Sweden crosses the Rhine with his army and besieges Mainz.
September 1631: Defeat of the Imperial army of Baltasar von Marradas by the Swedish army of Hans Georg von Arnim not far from Breslau.
November 1633: The Swedes under Bernard of Saxe-Weimar capture Ratisbon (today known as Regensburg).
May 1632: The Swedes arrive in Landshut but are defeated by the Imperial troops led by John of Werth of May, 14th 1632.
November 1632: Withdrawal of the Wallenstein army to winter quarters in Saxony, Gustav Adolf was forced to stand by the allied Saxons.
September 1633: The Swedes take Osnabrück.
July 1630: In 1630, Stettin was occupied by the Swedes.
May 1631: In the Thirty Years' War, Magdeburg was conquered by imperial troops under the commander Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly, of the Catholic League on May 20, 1631 (May 10 according to the Julian calendar).
June 1631: The city of Magdeburg was conquered by the Catholic League troops under the command of Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly, during the Thirty Years' War in May 1631. The city had been under siege for months before its fall.
November 1631: Capture of Prague by the Saxon army under Hans Georg von Arnim.
May 1632: In 1632, during the Thirty Years' War, the military leader Albrecht von Wallenstein, who was a prominent general in the Habsburg army, besieged and captured the city of Prague.
July 1632: The Swedes reach the city of Ehrenburg bei Reutte, which is, however, succesfully defended by Leopold William of Habsburg.
August 1632: The Dutch forces, led by Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, successfully captured the city of Maastricht from the Spanish occupiers in 1632.
December 1632: Swedes had to retreat from Deutz after a powerful counterattack.
March 1633: Bernhard von Sachsen-Weimar, as the German imperial prince, was able to achieve a leading position. He occupied Bamberg in February 1633.
December 1633: The lack of payment of wages led to mutinies among the soldiers, causing delays in the swedish conquest of Regensburg until November 1633.
June 1634: Conquest of Philippsburg by Sweden.
June 1634: In 1634, during the Thirty Years' War, Donauwörth was taken by the Imperial Army led by Johann von Aldringen.
July 1634: The Catholic League, led by Johann von Aldringen, successfully recaptured the city of Regensburg from the Swedes in July 1634. This victory marked a significant turning point in the Thirty Years' War, as the territory was then handed over to the Duchy of Bavaria.
April 1633: The Swedish army captured Landsberg am Lech.
December 1631: Mainz conquered by sweden.
Was a treaty during the Thirt Years' War that ended the war between Catholics and Protestants.
May 1635: In 1635, during the Thirty Years' War, Electoral Saxony (ruled by the Albertines) gained control of four administrative offices in the territory of Magdeburg. This transfer of power was part of the territorial realignment that occurred as a result of the war.
May 1635: According to the 1635 Peace of Prague, most of Lusatia became a province of the Electorate of Saxony, except for the region around Cottbus possessed by Brandenburg.
Selected Sources
Sacchi, A. (1991): La Guerre de Trente ans: L'Empire supplicié, L'Harmattan, p. 542
Tucker, S.C. (2011) Battles that changed History - An Encyclopedia of World Conflict, ABC-CLIO, pp.191-195
