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Name: Three Leagues

Type: Polity

Start: 1472 AD

End: 1799 AD

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Was the alliance of 1471 of the League of God's House, the League of the Ten Jurisdictions, and the Grey League, leading eventually to the formation of the Swiss canton of Graubünden (Grisons).

Establishment


  • January 1472: In 1471 the League allied with the Grey League, forming the Three Leagues.
  • January 1472: The Three Leagues was an alliance formed in 1471 in the Grisons region of Switzerland. It consisted of the League of God's House, the League of the Ten Jurisdictions, and the Grey League. This alliance was created to strengthen their political and military power in the region.
  • Chronology


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    1. French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars


    Were a series of conflicts between France and several European monarchies between 1792 and 1815. They encompass first the French Revolutionary Wars against the newly declared French Republic and from 1803 onwards the Napoleonic Wars against First Consul and later Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. They include the Coalition Wars as a subset: seven wars waged by various military alliances of great European powers, known as Coalitions, against Revolutionary France - later the First French Empire - and its allies.

  • January 1799: On April 12, 1798, 121 cantonal deputies proclaimed the Helvetic Republic under the auspices of the French occupying forces. The Helvetic Republic was a centralized state based on the ideas of the French Revolution.
  • March 1799: The Helvetic Republic annexed the Three Leagues and created the Canton of Raetia.

  • 2. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)


  • January 1478: Based on Gustav Droysen's Map of the Holy Roman Empire in the XV century.

  • January 1481: The inhabitants of Soazza and Mesocco became part of the Grey League.

  • January 1497: The Mesolcina Valley became part of the Three Leagues.

  • January 1499: In 1497 and 1498 the Three Leagues allied with the Old Swiss Confederacy after the Habsburgs acquired the possessions of the extinct Toggenburg dynasty in 1496, siding with the Confederacy in the Swabian War three years later.

  • Disestablishment


  • January 1799: On April 12, 1798, 121 cantonal deputies proclaimed the Helvetic Republic under the auspices of the French occupying forces. The Helvetic Republic was a centralized state based on the ideas of the French Revolution.
  • March 1799: The Helvetic Republic annexed the Three Leagues and created the Canton of Raetia.
  • Selected Sources


  • Droysen, G. (1886): Historischer Handatlas, Bielefeld and Leipzig (Germany), pp. 34-35
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