Chronicle

Events Leading to the Thirty Years War

June 1617 Bohemian Estates accept Ferdinand as next king

December 1617 Destruction of Calvinist Church at Klostergrab

March 1618 Emperor's letter forbidding meetings of Protestants

23 May 1618 Fenstersturz

June 1618 Thurn and Directorate take over Bohemia; contact Frederick;

Thurn attacks Vienna

20 July 1618 Hapsburg Palace Coup (arrest of Klesl, Mathias pushed aside)

Mid August 1618 Imperial Army enteres Bohemia: war on

May 1619 Oldenbarneveldt condemned and executed by Calvinist judiciary

and Maurice

19 August 1619 Bohemian Estates deposes Ferdinand as king

31 July 1619 Bohemian Estates creates confederation

26 August 1619 Frederick elected king of Bohemia (Ferdinand had been

deposed

28 August 1619 Ferdinand elected emperor

Fall 1619 Ferdinand decides to invade the Palatinate, too; war bogs down

8 November 1620 Battle of White Mountain