Tag: Holy Roman Empire

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30th November 1786: Tuscany becomes the first modern state to abolish the death penalty

• 30th November 2021
• Tagged as: Capital Punishment, Death, Execution, Habsburg, Holy Roman Empire, Italy, Law, Tuscany

On 30 November 1786 Leopold formally abolished the death sentence as well as banning the use of torture.

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20th October 1740: Maria Theresa inherits the Austrian throne, prompting the War of the Austrian Succession

• 20th October 2021
• Tagged as: Austria, Habsburg, Holy Roman Empire, Maria Theresa, Seven Years' War, War of the Austrian Succession

Maria Theresa inherited the Austrian throne, prompting the War of the Austrian Succession.

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21st June 1791: Louis XVI’s attempts to escape from Paris in the Flight to Varennes

• 21st June 2020
• Tagged as: Austria, Flight to Varennes, French Revolution, Holy Roman Empire, Louis XVI, Revolution, Treason

King Louis XVI of France and his family were caught attempting to escape Paris during the Flight to Varennes.

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29th May 1453: The Fall of Constantinople

• 29th May 2020
• Tagged as: Byzantine Empire, Greece, Holy Roman Empire, Ottoman Empire, Renaissance, Turkey

On the 29^th May 1453 the troops of the Ottoman Empire under Sultan Mehmed II successfully took control of Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire.

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27th April 1509: Entire republic of Venice excommunicated by the Pope

• 27th April 2020
• Tagged as: France, Holy Roman Empire, Italy, Military, Pope, Spain, Venice, War

On the 27^th April 1509, Pope Julius II excommunicated the entire republic of Venice.

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23rd May 1618: Officials thrown from a window in the Second Defenestration of Prague

• 23rd May 2019
• Tagged as: Bohemia, Catholicism, Holy Roman Empire, Prague, Protestantism, Thirty Years War

Two Catholic imperial officials and their secretary were thrown out of the window of the Bohemian Chancellery in the Second Defenestration of Prague.