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| 1519 |
| | | Charles V borrows 852,000 florins, mainly from the Fuggers, to bribe the seven imperial electors | |
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| 1547 |
| | | Hungary is divided, by agreement between the Turkish sultan Suleiman I and the Habsburg ruler Ferdinand I | |
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| 1556 |
| | | Charles V abdicates, handing the Netherlands and Spain to his son Philip and the title of Holy Roman emperor to his brother Ferdinand | |
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| 1556 |
| | | The division by Charles V of his territories means that there are now two Habsburg empires, Austrian and Spanish | |
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| 1618 |
| | | Bohemian nobles throw the Habsburg regents out of a window in the castle in Prague, thus triggering the Thirty Years' War | |
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| 1619 |
| | | The Protestant Frederick V (elector palatine of the Rhine) is elected king by the rebellious Bohemian nobles | |
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| 1620 |
| | | The battle of the White Mountain, to the west of Prague, ends the brief reign of Frederick V in Bohemia | |
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| 1683 |
| | | The emperor, Leopold I, and his court abandon Vienna on the approach of a Turkish army | |
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| 1683 |
| | | The Turks are driven from the walls of Vienna by the Polish king John Sobieski, in what proves a historic turning point | |
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| 1687 |
| | | The Hungarian diet grants the Habsburg dynasty in Austria a hereditary right to the crown of St Stephen | |
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