Thirty Years' War Definition

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A series of European wars (1618-48) on political and religious issues, fought orig. between German Catholics and German Protestants, but later involving the Swedish, French, and Spanish.
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  • His son, the elector Frederick V., accepted the throne of Bohemia and thus brought on the Thirty Years War.

  • In three years the many controversial questions were discussed and settled, and in October 1648 the treaty of Westphalia was signed and the Thirty Years War was at an end.

  • The Thirty Years War settled once for all the principle that men should not be persecuted for their religious faith.

  • Thus before the Thirty Years War the Empire had virtually ceased to exist, Germany having become a loose confederation of principalities and free cities.

  • The effect of the Thirty Years War on the national life was disastrous.

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