Electorate of Baden

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With the German Mediatisation of 1803 Charles Frederick of Baden received the Bishopric of Constance, part of the Electorate of the Palatinate, and other smaller districts, together with the prestige of being named a Prince-elector.

Establishment

April 1803: The Electorate of Baden was created on April 27, 1803 with the entry into force of the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss.

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 1804: In 1803, the right-bank territory of Speyer (at the time also spelled Spayer) was transferred to the Electorate of Baden. This decision was part of the territorial changes following the Treaty of Lunéville, which aimed to reorganize the territories of the Holy Roman Empire after the Napoleonic Wars.

January 1804: The Imperial City of Offenburg is mediatized to Baden.

January 1804: The Konstanz Prince-Bishopric is mediatized to Baden.

January 1804: The Imperial City of Pfullendorf is mediatized to Baden.

January 1804: Adelsheim was never one of the major ecclesiastical or secular principalities in the area, but was owned by the Imperial Knights until the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss in 1803. Then it came to the Grand Duchy of Baden.

January 1804: The right bank of the Strassburg Prince-Bishopric fell to Baden.

January 1804: The Imperial City of Überlingen is mediatized to Baden.

January 1804: Some Palatine right-bank territories of the Rhine River were transferred to the Electorate of Baden as part of the territorial changes brought about by the Napoleonic Wars.

January 1804: In 1803, Lahr and its environs came under Baden and the town became the seat of a Baden office.

January 1806: The former Imperial Citiy of Konstanz is ceded to Baden.

October 1806: The Electorate of Baden became the much-enlarged Grand Duchy of Baden through the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire in 1803-1806.

1.1.War of the Third Coalition

Was a European conflict spanning the years 1805 to 1806. During the war, France and its client states under Napoleon I opposed an alliance, the Third Coalition, made up of the United Kingdom, the Holy Roman Empire, the Russian Empire, Naples, Sicily, and Sweden. Prussia remained neutral during the war.

1.1.1.Peace of Pressburg

Was the treaty that ended the War of the Third Coalition.

December 1805: After the Austrian defeat at the Battle of Austerlitz and the Peace of Pressburg in 1805, Further Austria was entirely dissolved and the former Habsburg territories were assigned to the Grand Duchy of Baden (Breisgau), the Kingdom of Württemberg (Rottenburg and Horb) and the Kingdom of Bavaria (Weitnau Günzburg, Weißenhorn). Minor estates passed to Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen and the Grand Duchy of Hesse.

2. End of the Holy Roman Empire

The dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire occurred de facto on 6 August 1806, when the last Holy Roman Emperor, Francis II of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, abdicated his title and released all imperial states and officials from their oaths and obligations to the Empire.

August 1806: With the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806, it was annexed by the Grand Duchy of Baden.