Reuss Imperial County

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Was a county of the Holy Roman Empire.

Establishment

January 1330: The bailiffs quickly rose to the status of lords, and Emperor Ludwig the Bavarian confirmed them the rank of prince in 1329.

Chronology

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1. European wars of religion

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.

1.1.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.

1.1.1.Swedish Period

Was the third main period of the Thirty Years' War. It started with the intervention of the Kingdom of Sweden.

September 1631: The Catholic League led by General Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly, captured the fortress of Pleißenberg near Leipzig.

1.1.2.Franco-Swedish Period

Was the fourth main period of the Thirty Years' War. It started with the intervention of the Kingdom of France.

1.1.2.1.North German Front (Sweden)

Was the north German front during the Franco-Swedish period of the Thirty Years' War.

August 1640: In 1640, the Swedes led by field marshal Banér moved through Thuringia via Saalfeld into Hesse and further near the town of Fritzlar, which was reached on August 31, 1640.

October 1640: When 14 regiments arrived to reinforce the imperial army at the end of September 1640, the Swedish army left the territories it occupied in Germany (with the exception of Pomerania).

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.

June 1648: In May 1648, there was the last major field battle of the Thirty Years' War between French-Swedish and Imperial-Bavarian armies near Augsburg.

July 1648: Swedish Siege of Prague from July 25, 1648.

1.1.3.Peace of Westphalia

Were a series of treaties that ended the Thirty Years' War. Catholics and Protestants were redefined as equal in the territories of the Holy Roman Empire. There were major territorial adjustments. In particular, France, Sweden and Brandenburg had major territorial gains, and several religious territories of the Holy Roman Empire were secularized.

October 1648: With the Peace of Westphalia Sweden received Western Pomerania (henceforth Swedish Pomerania), Wismar, and the Prince-Bishoprics of Bremen and Verden as hereditary fiefs. Sweden evacuated the remnant territories it had occupied in the Holy Roman Empire.

2. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)

January 1334: In 1333 Leuchtenburg, Roda and Kahla fell to the Counts of Schwarzburg.

January 1451: Presumably Gera was annexed by Thuringia after it was destroyed in 1450 in the Saxon Civil War.

January 1548: Hofheim in Unterfranken pledged to Reuss County.

January 1570: Königsberg in Bayern was bought back in 1569 by Duke Johann Wilhelm von Sachsen-Weimar.

May 1778: The territory of Reuss-Greiz Principality was established on 12 May 1778. This marked the official formation of the principality under the rule of Heinrich XI, who was a member of the Reuss-Greiz ruling family.

May 1778: The Reuss-Gera Principality was established 12 May 1778.