Bohemian aristocrat, politician and generalissimo of imperial armies who achieved exceptional military and political successes during the Thirty Years’ War and became one of the most influential figures in Europe at the time.
The largest battle of the Thirty Years’ War on the Czech territory, in which on 6 March 1645 the Swedish army dealt a crushing defeat to the Imperial army of Ferdinand III and thus seriously threatened the position of the Habsburgs in Central Europe.
Czech version of the most significant international intellectual movement of the second half of the 18th century. Enlightenment ideals formed the first generation of National Revivalists and allowed for laying the foundations of modern Czech language and critical historiography.
One of the largest waves of emigration in the history of the Czech lands. It occurred after the defeat of the Bohemian Revolt in 1620, when Bohemia and Moravia were recatholicised by the victorious Habsburgs.
King of Bohemia and Hungary, and Holy Roman Empire from 1620 to 1637. One of the most despised rulers in Czech culture, a symbol of violent recatholization of the Czech lands.
King of Bohemia and Hungary, and Holy Roman Emperor from 1637 to 1657. A lesser known monarch largely responsible for the end of the Thirty Years’ War, but also for ending the process of recatholisation of Bohemia and Moravia.
King of Bohemia and Hungary, Holy Roman Emperor from 1711 to 1740, King of Spain from 1703 to 1711. The last male member of the House of Habsburg in the male line.
King of Bohemia and Hungary and Holy Roman Emperor from 1705 to 1711. He is almost forgotten in the Czech lands, although he was an educated and cultivated reformer who sought to modernise the Habsburg Monarchy during his short reign.
King of Bohemia and Hungary between 1657 and 1705, Holy Roman Emperor between 1658 and 1705. During his reign, the Habsburg Monarchy became one of the largest European powers.
Political, ideological and cultural regime after 1620. The period after the Battle of White Mountain was dominated by the Catholic confession and sacral culture and characterised by political absolutism and the reduction of Czech language and national idenitity.
Czech noblewoman originally from the Pernštejn family, called in her time “the first lady of the Kingdom of Bohemia”. Owing to her exceptional education, influence and wealth she accumulated, she was one of the most respectable figures of her time.
Comprehensive law codes issued in 1627 for Bohemia and in 1628 for Moravia, which legalised the revolutionary changes after the defeat of the Bohemian Revolt in the Battle of White Mountain.
Important battle in the last phase of the Thirty Years’ War, during which a small Brno garrison resisted the several times larger Swedish army commanded by general Torstenson, thus thwarting his plan to attack Vienna.
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