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Was a duchy of the Holy Roman Empire located in northern Germany.
Establishment
January 1179: Establishment of the Mecklenburg Duchy.
Chronology
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Was the invasion of northern Germany by king Canute VI of Denmark caused by disagreement with Adolf III, Count of Schauenburg and Holstein, over the possession of the island of Rügen.
January 1201: On January 25, 1201, the army of Adolf III of Holstein and his ally Adolf I of Dassel was defeated by Danish forces near Washow. The County of Ratzeburg was occupied by Denmark.
January 1215: Valdemar of Denmark reached the zenith of his power around 1220, when he conquered Pomerania (1214).
July 1227: Battle of Bornhöved: Count Adolf IV of Schauenburg and Holstein defeated King Valdemar II of Denmark. As a result, the Danish border with the Holy Roman Empire was moved north from the Elbe river to the Eider River, the southern border of the Duchy of Schleswig.
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.
2.1.Mongol Invasions of Germany
Were a series of Mongol raids in Germany.
2.1.1.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.
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.
3.1.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.
3.1.1.Franco-Swedish Period
Was the fourth main period of the Thirty Years' War. It started with the intervention of the Kingdom of France.
3.1.1.1.North German Front (Sweden)
Was the north German front during the Franco-Swedish period of the Thirty Years' War.
December 1643: In 1643 Swedish general Torstensson invaded Moravia for the second time.
January 1644: In 1643, when the Torstensson War broke out, the Swedish military focused entirely on Denmark and thus enabled an imperial offensive to Jutland.
November 1644: In 1644 Swedish field marshal Torstenson led his army for the third time into the heart of Germany and routed the imperials at the battle of Jüterbog.
July 1647: The Imperial Army liberated the fortress of Egra (today known as Cheb in the Czech Republic) from Swedish occupation.
January 1228: Parchim Lordship is partitioned from Mecklenburg.
January 1228: Establishment of the Werle Lordship.
January 1228: Establishment of the Principality of Rostock.
January 1256: The Parchim Lordship is disestablished.
January 1257: Territorial change based on available maps.
January 1301: Territorial change based on available maps.
January 1304: Dannenberg is sold to Lüneburg.
May 1323: After another war, Henry II of Mecklenburg conquered Rostock and made peace with the Danish king Christopher II on May 21, 1323. He received the lordships of Rostock, Gnoien and Schwaan as hereditary fiefdoms from Denmark and the Principality of Rostock ceased to exist.
January 1353: Establishment of the Mecklenburg-Schwerin Duchy.
January 1353: Establishment of the Mecklenburg-Stargard Duchy.
January 1379: Based on Gustav Droysen's Map of the Holy Roman Empire in the XIV century.
January 1437: The Werle Lordship is disestablished.
January 1472: The Mecklenburg-Stargard Duchy is disestablished.
January 1472: Territorial change based on available maps.
January 1622: Establishment of the Mecklenburg-Guestrow Duchy.
January 1622: Territorial change based on available maps.
January 1623: Territorial change based on available maps.
January 1633: In 1632, in the Thirty Years' War, Sweden conquered the city of Wismar, which had been occupied by imperial troops since 1627, and which fell to the Swedish crown as an imperial fief in the Peace of Westphalia in 1648.
January 1696: Territorial change based on available maps.
January 1696: The Mecklenburg-Guestrow Duchy is disestablished.
Disestablishment
January 1702: Territorial change based on available maps.
January 1702: Establishment of the Mecklenburg-Strelitz Duchy.
Selected Sources
Dreißigjähriger Krieg. Austria Forum. Retrieved on 30 march 2024 on https://austria-forum.org/af/AustriaWiki/Drei%C3%9Figj%C3%A4hriger_Krieg
Droysen, G. (1886): Historischer Handatlas, Bielefeld and Leipzig (Germany), p. 26-49
Droysen, G. (1886): Historischer Handatlas, Bielefeld and Leipzig (Germany), pp. 30-31
Strakosh-Grassmann, G. (1893): Der Einfall der Mongolen in Mitteleuropa in den Jahren 1241 und 1242, Innsbruck (Austria), pp. 53-67
Mecklenburg Duchy
