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The Great Elector

PROFILES IN POWER

General Editor: Keith Robbins

CATHERINE DE MEDICI

R.J. Knecht

ELIZABETHI I (2nd Edn)

Christopher Haigh

BURGHLEY

Michael A.R. Graves

JAMES I AND VI

Roger Lockyer

RICHELIEU

R.J. Knecht

GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS (2nd Edn)

Micheal Roberts

OLIVER CROMWELL

Barry Coward

PETER THE GREAT (2nd Edn)

M.S. Anderson

THE ELDER PITT

Merie Peters

THE YOUNGER PITT

Michael Duffy

JOSEPH II

T.C.W. Blanning

ROBESPIERRE

John Hardman

NAPOLEON

Geoffrey Ellis

ALEXANDER I

Janet M. Hartley

DISRAELI

Ian Machin

JUREZ

Brian Hamneet

CAVOUR

Harry Hearder

NAPOLEON III

James McMillan

WILLIAM PENN

Mary K. Geiter

FRANCIS JOSEPH

Steven Beller

ATATRK

A.L. Macfie

LENIN

Berly Williams

LLOYD GEORGE

Martin Pugh

PTAIN

Nicholas Arkin

HITLER

Ian Kershaw

CHURCHILL

Keith Robbins

NEHRU

Judith M. Brown

ATTLEE

Robert Pearce

NASSER

Peter Woodward

DE GAULE

Andrew Shennan

FRANCO

Sheelagh Ellwood

MAO

S.G. Breslin

MACMILLAN

John Turner

KENNEDY

Hugh Brogan

CASTRO (2nd Edn)

Sebastain Balfour

GORBACHEV

Martin McCauley

KAISER WILHELM II

Christopher Clark

The Great Elector

Derek McKay

First published 2001 by Pearson Education Limited

Published 2014 by Routledge

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ISBN 13: 978-0-582-49482-4 (pbk)

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Typeset by 35 in 10/12 pt Janson Text

For Frances

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CONTENTS

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Much of the material in appeared in an article in the collection Royal and Republican Sovereignty in Early Modern Europe, edited by Robert Oresko, G.C. Gibbs and H.M. Scott (Cambridge, 1997). I am grateful to Cambridge University Press for letting me use this. Over the past 30 years Hamish Scott has always been generous with his time and help, never more so than in the writing of this book. Christopher Storrs has helped in many ways. Professor Peter Cole of the Royal Brompton has kept me in one piece; my wife, Frances, our daughters and grandson have made sure that I enjoy living beside the seaside.

Brighton,

2000

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1608	Accession of John Sigismund as elector of Brandenburg
1609	Death of John William of Cleves-Jlich
1613	Elector John Sigismund becomes a Calvinist
1614	Treaty of Xanten provisionally settles the Cleves-Jlich succession
1616	Marriage of Crown Prince George William and Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate
1618	Death of Duke Albert Frederick of Prussia and succession of John Sigismund; Bohemian rebellion and outbreak of Thirty Years War (May)
1619	Ferdinand II elected Holy Roman Emperor
1620	Accession of George William as elector of Brandenburg and duke of Prussia (Jan.); birth of Frederick William, the Great Elector (Feb.); defeat of Frederick V, Elector Palatine, outside Prague (Nov.)
1621	Outbreak of Dutch-Spanish War
1625	Beginning of Swedo-Polish War (till 1629); Christian IV of Denmark enters Thirty Years War (till 1626)
1626	Imperialists under Wallenstein occupy Brandenburg
1629	Further treaty between Brandenburg and Pfalz-Neuburg over Cleves-Jlich
1630	Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden enters Thirty Years War
1631	Alliance between Brandenburg and Sweden (Jun.)
1632	Election of Wadisaw IV as king of Poland; death of Gustavus Adolphus (Nov.)
1635	France enters the Thirty Years War; Saxony and Emperor make Peace of Prague, which Brandenburg joins (Sept.)
1637	Death of Bogislav XIV of Pomerania; succession of Ferdinand III as Holy Roman Emperor; Brandenburg joins the Emperor and Saxony against Sweden
1638	George William flees to Prussia
1640	Death of George William and accession of Frederick William (Dec.)
1641	Death of Schwarzenberg (Mar.); Brandenburg-Swedish armistice (Jul.)
1643	Frederick William returns to Brandenburg (Mar.)
1644	Danish-Swedish War begins (May) (to 1645)
1646	First Berg War begins (Nov.) (till April 1647); marriage of Frederick William and Louise Henrietta (Dec.)
1648	Peace of Westphalia ends the Thirty Years War in Germany (Oct.); election of John Casimir as Polish king (Nov.)

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