Rhinegraves Domains

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Establishment

• January 1171: The Rhinegraves Domains gain imperial immediacy.

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. Thirty Years' War Minor Scenarios

A series of conflicts related to the Thirty Years' War.

1.1.1.1. Invasion of Franche Comté (Ten Years War)

Was French invasion of modern-day Franche-Comté, at the time a possession of the Habsburg, during the Thirty Years' War.

• January 1645: Following a treaty concluded with Cardinal Mazarin in 1644, France committed to cease hostilities in Franche-Comté, in exchange for the considerable sum of 40,000 écus, thus guaranteeing the region's neutrality once again. The year 1644 thus marked the end of the Ten Years' War in Franche-Comté.

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. Low Countries Front (France)

Was the Low Countries front during the Franco-Swedish period of the Thirty Years' War.

• January 1636: Spanish occupation of Philippsbourg, Speyer, Landau and Treviri.

2. French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

Were a series of conflicts between France and several European monarchies between 1792 and 1815. They encompass first the French Revolutionary Wars against the newly declared French Republic and from 1803 onwards the Napoleonic Wars against First Consul and later Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. They include the Coalition Wars as a subset: seven wars waged by various military alliances of great European powers, known as Coalitions, against Revolutionary France - later the First French Empire - and its allies.

2.1. War of the First Coalition

Were a series of wars between the Kingdom of France (later the French Republic) and several European Monarchies. The French Revolution had deteriorated the relations of France with the other European countries, that tried several times to invade France in order to crash the revolutionary government.

• January 1795: The French armies drove the Austrians, British, and Dutch beyond the Rhine, occupying Belgium, the Rhineland, and the south of the Netherlands.

3. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)

• January 1379: Based on Gustav Droysen's Map of the Holy Roman Empire in the XIV century.

Disestablishment

• January 1795: The French armies drove the Austrians, British, and Dutch beyond the Rhine, occupying Belgium, the Rhineland, and the south of the Netherlands.

Selected Sources

• Addington, L. (1994): The Patterns of War Since the Eighteenth Century, Bloomington (USA), p.24
• Droysen, G. (1886): Historischer Handatlas, Bielefeld and Leipzig (Germany), pp. 30-31
• Livet, G. (1994): La Guerre de Trente Ans, Paris (France), p. 37
• Zeller, O. (2024): La Bresse et le pouvoir: Le Papier journal de Jean Corton, syndic du tiers état (1641-1643), Dijon (France), p. 12