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Was a medieval and early modern monarchy in Central Europe, the predecessor of the modern Czech Republic. It was an Imperial State in the Holy Roman Empire, and the Bohemian King was a prince-elector of the empire. Despites nominally existing until 1918, from 1526 it was part of the Habsburg Domains.
Establishment
January 1199: The Kingdom of Bohemia was officially established in 1198 by Ottokar I of Bohemia.
Chronology
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Were a series of military campaigny by the Mongols that created the largest contiguous Empire in history, the Mongol Empire, which controlled most of Eurasia.
1.1.Mongol Invasions of Germany
Were a series of Mongol raids in Germany.
1.1.1.First Mongol Invasion of Germany
Was a Mongol raid in the Holy Roman Empire.
May 1241: The Mongols invaded the Holy Roman Empire without major clash of arms.The army invaded eastern Germany, and crossed the March of Moravia in April-May 1241.
June 1241: The Mongols left eastern Germany and Moravia.
1.1.2.Second Mongol Invasion of Germany
The Mongols raided eastern Austria and southern Moravia again in December 1241 and January 1242.
January 1242: The Mongols raided eastern Austria and southern Moravia again in January 1242.
February 1242: The Mongols raided eastern Austria and southern Moravia again in January 1242. After the raid, the Mongols left these regions.
Was a war that began when the Kingdom of Bohemia was invaded by the king of Hungary, Matthias Corvinus.
January 1469: In 1468, Matthias Corvinus, the King of Hungary, seized control of Moravia and Silesia from George of Poděbrad, who was the King of Bohemia. Matthias then declared himself the King of Bohemia, asserting his power over the region.
April 1479: The Peace of Olomouc was signed between Matthias Corvinus of Hungary and King Vladislaus II of Bohemia (and Hungary, later), bringing the Bohemian-Hungarian War (1468-1478) to an end. Based on the terms of the treaty, Vladislaus would cede the territories of Moravia, Silesia, and Lusatia to Corvinus.
January 1251: Upon the death of Gertrude's second husband, Margrave Herman VI of Baden, in 1250, Ottokar of Bohemia invaded the Austrian lands, acclaimed by the local nobility. To substantiate his claims, he married Margaret (about 30 years his senior) in 1252.
January 1263: The land of Budissin enters the possessions of the Ascanian Margraves of Brandenburg.
January 1269: As a result of the Staufer family dying out in 1268, Eger came under Bohemian sovereignty.
January 1270: Krain is acquired by the Kingdom of Bohemia.
January 1277: Krain is annexed to Austria.
August 1278: Rudolf I of Habsburg defeats Ottokar II of Bohemia at the Battle of Marchfeld and takes over his Austrian possessions: Austria and Styria. These territories, the hereditary states, formed the heart of the possessions of the House of Habsburg.
January 1301: In the 14th century Velden belonged to the new Bohemian possessions for a while.
January 1307: In 1306, the Přemyslid dynasty died out and, after a series of dynastic wars, John, Count of Luxembourg, was elected Bohemian king.
January 1458: After Ladislaus the Posthumous, who was both King of Bohemia and Duke of Austria, died of leukemia in 1457, the Bohemian estates elected George of Poděbrady as king of Bohemia.
January 1524: In 1523 Georg von Schellenberg sold Jägerndorf to Margrave George the Pious due to financial difficulties.
January 1524: In 1523, George of Schellenberg, a nobleman and landowner, was forced to sell Krnov to the Hohenzollern margrave George of Brandenburg-Ansbach.
December 1526: As early as 1526, Duke Johann II had enfeoffed the Brandenburg Margrave George the Pious of Ansbach with Oppeln. The Habsburgs, who came to power in Bohemia in the same year, confirmed the pledge of Oppeln-Ratibor to George of Brandenburg-Ansbach in the Prague Treaty of June 17, 1531. However, the rule of Beuthen was promised to him on only two heirs.
December 1526: In 1526 Vladislav's son, King Louis, was decisively defeated by the Ottoman Turks at the Battle of Mohács and subsequently died. As a result, the Turks conquered part of the Kingdom of Hungary, and the rest (mainly present-day Slovakia territory) came under Habsburg rule under the terms of King Louis' marriage contract.
Disestablishment
December 1526: As early as 1526, Duke Johann II had enfeoffed the Brandenburg Margrave George the Pious of Ansbach with Oppeln. The Habsburgs, who came to power in Bohemia in the same year, confirmed the pledge of Oppeln-Ratibor to George of Brandenburg-Ansbach in the Prague Treaty of June 17, 1531. However, the rule of Beuthen was promised to him on only two heirs.
December 1526: In 1526 Vladislav's son, King Louis, was decisively defeated by the Ottoman Turks at the Battle of Mohács and subsequently died. As a result, the Turks conquered part of the Kingdom of Hungary, and the rest (mainly present-day Slovakia territory) came under Habsburg rule under the terms of King Louis' marriage contract.
Selected Sources
Strakosh-Grassmann, G. (1893): Der Einfall der Mongolen in Mitteleuropa in den Jahren 1241 und 1242, Innsbruck (Austria), pp. 53-67
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