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Name: Holy League (Military Occupation)

Type: Polity

Start: 1509 AD

End: 1644 AD

Parent:

france ,spain ,austria

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Holy League (Military Occupation)

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The territories militarly occupied by the Holy League during the War of the League of Cambrai (1508-1516).

Establishment

May 1509: Louis had crossed the Adda River at Cassano d'Adda.

May 1509: The French army was sufficient to expel the Venetians from Vicenza by May.

May 1509: Bergamos ubmits to the Holy Roman Empire.

May 1509: Brescia barred the doors to the retreating Venetians, surrendering without any significant resistance on May 24 to the French together with Cremona and Crema.

June 1509: In short, the forces of the league occupied all of the mainland, reaching as far as the edge of the lagoon, at the gates of Mestre, where Pitigliano had barricaded itself.

June 1509: The Venetian troops, led by Bartolomeo d'Alviano, were pursued by the French and Imperial forces, led by Louis XII of France and Maximilian I, resulting in the surrender of Padua to the Holy League on 5 June 1509.

July 1509: Venetian control was re-established in Padua.

November 1509: In 1509, these territories were reconquered by the Republic of Venice under the leadership of Doge Leonardo Loredan and Captain-General Bartolomeo d'Alviano: the cities of Bassano, Feltre, Belluno, Cividale, Castel Nuovo, Monselice, Montagnana, and the Polesine region were brought back under Venetian control.

November 1509: The Venetian troops defeated the imperial forces, regaining control of Vicenza, Este, Feltre and Belluno.

Chronology

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1. Italian Wars

Were a series of conflicts covering the period between 1494 to 1559, fought mostly in the Italian peninsula, but later expanding into Flanders, the Rhineland and the Mediterranean Sea. The primary belligerents were the Valois kings of France, and their Habsburg opponents in the Holy Roman Empire and Spain.

1.1.War of the League of Cambrai

Was one of the so-called Italian wars.

1.1.1.First Phase - The league of Cambrai

Was the first phase of the War of the League of Cambrai, one of the so-called Italian Wars.

1.1.1.1.French invasion of Venice (War of the League of Cambrai)

Was a French invasion of the Republic of Venice during the War of the League of Cambrai.

1.1.1.2.Venetian Counterattack (War of the League of Cambrai)

Was the Venetian counterattack against the invasion of its territories by Louis XII of France.

January 1510: In 1509 Aquileia was conquered by the Holy Roman Empire during the War of the League of Cambrai.

1.1.2.Second Phase - Alliance between Venice and the Papal States

Was the second phase of the War of the League of Cambrai, one of the so-called Italian Wars.

January 1511: Lucio Malvezzi, captain of the army of the Serenissima, retook Marostica and Bassano, entering Vicenza and arriving as far as Verona.

1.1.3.Third Phase - The Holy League

Was the third phase of the War of the League of Cambrai, one of the so-called Italian Wars.

June 1511: Venice retook Cremona, and again received the submission of Bergamo.

September 1511: Siege of Treviso.

December 1511: Siege of Treviso.

October 1512: Forces of the Republic of Venice conquer Crema.

2. European wars of religion

Were a series of wars in Europe (and the overseas possessions of European countries) the 16th, 17th and early 18th that started after the Protestant Reformation. Although the immediate causes of the wars were religious, the motives were complex and also included territorial ambitions.

2.1.Thirty Years' War

Was a war that took place mainly in central Europe between 1618 and 1648. The war began as a religious conflict between Catholics and Protestant in the Holy Roman Empire but then escalated into a conflict for the hegemony in Europe between Habsburg Spain and Austria, Sweden and France.

2.1.1.Thirty Years' War Minor Scenarios

A series of conflicts related to the Thirty Years' War.

2.1.1.1.Invasion of Franche Comté (Ten Years War)

Was French invasion of modern-day Franche-Comté, at the time a possession of the Habsburg, during the Thirty Years' War.

January 1645: Following a treaty concluded with Cardinal Mazarin in 1644, France committed to cease hostilities in Franche-Comté, in exchange for the considerable sum of 40,000 écus, thus guaranteeing the region's neutrality once again. The year 1644 thus marked the end of the Ten Years' War in Franche-Comté.

2.1.2.Franco-Swedish Period

Was the fourth main period of the Thirty Years' War. It started with the intervention of the Kingdom of France.

2.1.2.1.Rhineland Front (France)

Was the Rhineland front during the Franco-Swedish period of the Thirty Years' War.

May 1644: Franz von Mercy, a Bavarian general who fought for the Holy Roman Empire, conquers Überlingen.

July 1644: The imperials took Freiburg.