The Thirty Years’ War

• Protestant Union: 1608

• Catholic League: 1609

• Election of Habsburg Archduke Ferdinand as king of Bohemia: 1617

• Bohemian revolt against Ferdinand: 1618

• Bohemian phase: 1618–1625

• Battle of White Mountain: 1620

• Danish phase: 1625–1629

• Edict of Restitution: 1629

• Swedish phase: 1630–1635

• Battle of Lützen: 1632

• Battle of Nördlingen: 1634

• Franco-Swedish phase: 1635–1648

• Battle of Rocroi: 1643

• Peace of Westphalia: 1648

• Peace of the Pyrenees: 1659