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Name: Poland-Lithuania (Saxony PU)
Type: Polity
Start: 1738 AD
End: 1764 AD
Nation: poland-lithuania
Parent: saxony (albertines)
Statistics
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Poland-Lithuania (Saxony PU)
This article is about the specific polity Poland-Lithuania (Saxony PU) and therefore only includes events related to its territory and not to its possessions or colonies. If you are interested in the possession, this is the link to the article about the nation which includes all possessions as well as all the different incarnations of the nation.
If you are looking for the page with the statistics about this polity you can find it here:All Statistics
Augustus III was King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania and Elector of Saxony at the same time in the period 1738-1764.
Summary
For a brief period in the mid-18th century, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth came under the rule of the Wettin dynasty of Saxony. Augustus II and his son Augustus III were elected as kings of Poland, but their reigns were marked by continued foreign interference and the further erosion of Polish sovereignty.
Establishment
Chronology
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1. War of the Polish Succession
Was a major European conflict sparked by a Polish civil war over the succession to Augustus II of Poland.
Was the treaty that ended the War of the Polish Succession. Augustus III was officially confirmed as King of Poland.
2. Russian protectorate on Poland
Russia instigated a coup that made Poland its factual protectorate.
