Habsburg Monarchy
Proper noun
Meaning
Habsburg Monarchy
(unofficial appellation among historians) The countries and provinces that were ruled by the junior Austrian branch of the House of Habsburg until 1780, and then by the successor branch of Habsburg-Lorraine until 1918.
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After the death of King Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia at Mohács in 1526, Legnica was inherited by the Habsburg Monarchy of Austria.
Asprey, p. 24. While the Austrian Habsburg Monarchy was distracted by the succession, Frederick, upon coming to the throne, rejected the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 and opportunistically invaded Silesia on 16 December 1740.
Ingrao: The Habsburg Monarchy, 105; Kamen: Spanish Succession, 1 The testament of her father, Philip IV, reiterated this waiver and bequeathed the reversion of the whole of the Spanish dominions to his younger daughter, Margaret.
Wolf: The Emergence, 60; Ingrao: The Habsburg Monarchy, 105; Spielman: Leopold I, 170–2 If he chose, Louis XIV could attempt to assert his will on Spain by force of arms, but the Nine Years' War had been an immense drain on France's resources.
In 1848, all the provinces of the Habsburg Monarchy received complete liberty of religion and of conscience, parity of religions, and the right to the public exercise of religion.
The panic began with an outbreak of alleged vampire attacks in East Prussia in 1721 and in the Habsburg Monarchy from 1725 to 1734, which spread to other localities.