| 1300 |
|
August |
Albert abandons siege of Nijmegen;
the Rhenish princes revolt |
| 1301 |
| 13 |
April |
Pope Boniface summons Albert to Rome
to answer for the murder of Adolf of Nassau |
| 1302 |
|
|
Albert subdues the Elector of the
Rhineland |
| 1303 |
|
April |
Boniface recognizes Albert as King
of the Romans |
| 1304 |
|
|
Albert invades Bohemia but fails at
Kutná Hora |
| 1305 |
|
June |
Bohemia makes peace with Albert |
| 1307 |
|
August |
Albert again invades Bohemia after
Duke Henry of Carinthia is elected King of Bohemia |
| 1308 |
| 1 |
May |
Albert is murdered by Duke John of
Swabia, his nephew |
| 27 |
November |
Henry of Luxemburg is elected King
of the Romans (-1313) |
| 1311 |
| 6 |
January |
Henry VII crowned King of Lombardy
in Milan |
|
September |
Henry captures Brescia and punishes
it for rebelling |
| 1312 |
| 29 |
June |
Henry crowned Emperor in the Lateran |
| 31 |
October |
Henry fails to take Florence by
storm |
| 1313 |
| 26 |
April |
Henry declares Robert of Naples
guilty of treason |
| 24 |
August |
Henry dies while marching on Naples |
|
November |
Lewis of Wittelsbach, Duke of Upper
Bavaria, defeats invasion by Frederick the Handsome, Duke of Upper
Bavaria, at Gammelsdorf |
| 1314 |
| 19 |
October |
Frederick of Austria is elected King
of the Romans (-1325) |
| 20 |
October |
Lewis of Bavaria is also elected;
civil war ensues |
| 1322 |
| 28 |
September |
Lewis the Bavarian defeats and
captures Frederick at Mühldorf |
| 1324 |
| 24 |
June |
Lewis invests his son, Lewis, with
Brandenburg (-1351) |
| 1325 |
| 13 |
March |
Frederick renounces his claim to be
King of the Romans |
| 1327 |
|
May |
Lewis crowned King of the Lombards
in Milan |
| 1328 |
| 7 |
January |
Lewis enters Rome and is crowned
Emperor by the Four Syndics of the Roman People; Pope John XXII has
already excommunicated him and now declares a crusade against him |
| 22 |
May |
Lewis counters by deposing John and
creating an anti-pope |
| 1329 |
|
December |
Lewis returns to Germany |
| 1330 |
| 13 |
January |
Frederick of Austria dies |
| 1335 |
| 2 |
April |
Duke Henry of Carinthia dies; Lewis
confers the Duchy on the Hapsburgs; he keeps the northern Tyrol, despite
his promise that Henry's daughter, Margaret "Maultasch" would inherit
there |
| 1336 |
|
|
Aided by John of Bohemia, Margaret
recovers the Tyrol |
| 1338 |
| 5 |
September |
Lewis allies with Edward of England |
| 1341 |
| 15 |
March |
Lewis abandons Edward and makes
peace with Philip of France |
| 1342 |
|
February |
Tyrol revolts; Lewis declares
Margaret's marriage to John Henry of Bohemia void; she then marries
Lewis' son, Lewis of Brandenburg |
| 1346 |
|
April |
Charles of Bohemia renounces claims
to Italy and receives papal permission to be elected King of the Romans |
| 11 |
July |
Charles elected (-1378) |
| 1347 |
| 11 |
October |
Lewis dies; Charles generally
accepted as king |
| 1348 |
| 7 |
April |
Charles unites Silesia, Moravia, and
Upper Lusatia to Bohemia |
| 1350 |
| 14 |
February |
Charles cedes Brandenburg and the
Tyrol to the Wittelsbachs |
| 1354 |
|
October |
Charles IV begins an expedition to
Italy |
| 1355 |
| 5 |
April |
Charles crowned Emperor in Rome; he
returns to Germany immediately |
| 1356 |
|
December |
Charles issues the Golden Bull |
| 1364 |
|
February |
Charles grants the Tyrol to Rudolf
of Austria |
| 1365 |
| 4 |
June |
Charles goes to Avignon and is
crowned King of Arles |
| 1368 |
| 1 |
November |
Charles' queen is crowned Empress in
Rome during a brief Italian expedition |
| 1376 |
| 10 |
June |
Wenceslaus elected King of the
Romans |
| 1377 |
| 21 |
May |
Imperial forces defeated at
Reutlingen by a league of Swabian cities |
| 1378 |
|
January |
Charles visits Paris and appoints as
imperial vicar for the Kingdom of Arles the Dauphin Charles V |
|
November |
Charles declares for Pope Urban |
| 29 |
November |
Charles dies; Wenceslaus gets the
Empire, while Sigismund gets Brandenburg, and John gets Görlitz |
| 1382 |
| 14 |
January |
Anne of Bohemia marries Richard of
England |
| 11 |
September |
Lewis of Hungary dies; the
Hungarians elect his oldest daughter, Mary, who is betrothed to
Sigismund of Bohemia |
| 1384 |
| 26 |
July |
Wenceslaus arranges a truce between
town leagues and the princes of southwest Germany |
| 1385 |
| 21 |
February |
Rhenish and Swabian Leagues ally
with the Swiss |
| 1386 |
| 10 |
June |
Sigismund marries Mary, becoming
King of Hungary (-1437); Sigismund also cedes Brandenburg to Jost,
Margrave of Moravia |
| 1388 |
| 23 |
August |
Count of Württemberg defeats
the Swabian League at Döffingen |
| 1389 |
| 5 |
May |
Wenceslaus announces Imperial Peace
for southern Germany |
| 1394 |
| 8 |
May |
League of the Lords temporarily
arrests Wenceslaus |
| 1395 |
| 17 |
May |
Mary of Hungary dies; some nobles
now support Ladislas of Naples against Sigismund |
| 1396 |
|
April |
Archbishop of Prague resigns in a
dispute with Wenceslaus over control of the Bohemian church; at the same
time, Sigismund forces Wenceslaus to allow lords of Bohemia and Moravia
to control the government |
| 1400 |
| 21 |
August |
Rhenish electors depose Wenceslaus
and elect Rupert III (-1410) |
| 1401 |
|
|
Wenceslaus is besieged in Prague
Castle by League of the Lords; he accepts permanent council for
governing Bohemia |
|
August |
Sigismund is released by Hungarian
lords who had imprisoned him for a few months |
| 1402 |
|
|
Sigismund imprisons Wenceslaus in
Vienna |
| 1403 |
|
|
Wenceslaus escapes and returns to
Bohemia |
| 1405 |
| 14 |
September |
Archbishop John of Mainz, and other
princes, form an alliance against Rupert |
| 1410 |
| 18 |
May |
Rupert dies |
| 20 |
September |
Sigismund is elected King of the
romans |
| 1411 |
|
|
Jost of Moravia dies; Sigismund
grants Brandenburg to Frederick of Hohenzollern, Burgrave of Nuremburg
(-1415) |
| 1412 |
|
|
Sigismund tries but fails to recover
Dalmatia from Venice |
| 1416 |
| 9 |
February |
Sigismund makes the county of Savoy
a duchy |
| 1418 |
|
|
Sigismund loses Friuli to Venice |
| 1419 |
| 30 |
July |
Defenestration of Prague |
| 16 |
August |
Wenceslaus dies; succeeded in
Bohemia by Sigismund |
| 1420 |
| 21 |
February |
Extreme Hussites found Tabor |
| 25 |
March |
John Zizka defeats Bohemians at
Sudomer |
| 1 |
May |
Pope Martin declares first Hussite
Crusade |
| 14 |
July |
Taborites defeat Sigismund on the
Vitkor Hill outside Prague; the Four Articles are published |
| 1 |
November |
Hussites defeat Sigismund under the
Heights of Vysebrad; failure of the first anti-Hussite crusade |
| 1421 |
| 1 |
June |
Estates of Bohemia and Moravia
renounce Sigismund as their king and form a government |
| 2 |
November |
Bohemia defeats German princes at
Saaz; failure of second anti-Hussite crusade |
| 1422 |
| 6 |
January |
John Ziska defeats Germans at
Kutná Hora |
| 10 |
January |
Ziska defeats Germans again at Nêmecky
Brod |
| 16 |
May |
Bohemians accept Korybut of Poland,
nephew to King Jagiello, as their king |
| 1423 |
| 23 |
April |
John Zizka defeats moderate Hussites
at Horic |
| 1424 |
| 11 |
October |
John Zizka dies; his followers now
call themselves "the Orphans" |
| 1426 |
| 12 |
March |
Bohemians defeat Duke Albert of
Austria at Zwettl |
| 16 |
June |
Prokop destroys German army at
Ûsti; failure of the third anti-Hussite crusade |
| 1427 |
| 17 |
April |
Bohemians expel their king, Korybut;
they raid into Silesia and Lusatia |
| 27 |
August |
Cardinal Beufort flees from Stribo
on the approach of the Bohemians; failure of the fourth anti-Hussite
crusade |
| 1428 |
|
|
Sigismund defeated in a campaign on
the lower Danube against the Turks |
| 1429 |
|
|
Bohemians raid Saxony and Thuringia |
| 1431 |
| 14 |
August |
Cardinal Cesarini and his army flees
from Taus (Domazlice) on the approach of the Bohemian army; failure of
the fifth anti-Hussite crusade |
| 1433 |
| 31 |
May |
Pope Eugenius crowns Sigismund
emperor |
| 1434 |
| 30 |
May |
Battle of Lipany; moderate Hussites
defeat the Taborites; Andrew Prokop is killed |
| 1436 |
| 23 |
August |
Sigismund enters Prague, having been
accepted as King of Bohemia following his acceptance of the Compacts of
Prague |
| 1437 |
| 9 |
December |
Sigismund dies; succeeded as King of
Hungary by Duke Albert V of Austria (-1439), but the Bohemians refuse to
accept him |
| 1438 |
| 18 |
March |
Albert of Austria elected King of
the Romans |
| 1439 |
| 27 |
October |
Albert dies; succeeded as King of
Hungary by Vladislav of Poland (-1444) |
| 1440 |
| 2 |
February |
Frederick III, Duke of Styria,
elected as King of the Romans (-1493) |
| 22 |
February |
Birth of Ladislas Poshumus, son of
Albert II; the Bohemians accept him as their king |
|
September |
Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg,
dies; son Frederick II succeeds (-1470) |
| 1444 |
|
|
George Podebrady becomes leader of
the Hussites |
| 1448 |
|
September |
George Podebrady occupies Prague |
| 1451 |
|
October |
Frederick III, as guardian of
Ladislas Posthumus, appoints George Podebrady governor of Bohemia |
| 1452 |
| 19 |
March |
Pope Nicholas crowns Frederick as
Emperor |
| 27 |
April |
George Podebrady elected regent of
Bohemia |
| 1453 |
| 28 |
October |
Ladislas Posthumus crowned King of
Bohemia; he appoints George as governor |
| 1454 |
|
|
Frederick II of Brandenburg buys the
Neumark from the Teutonic Knights |
| 1458 |
| 2 |
March |
George Podebrady elected King of
Bohemia (-1471) after the death of Ladislas Posthumus (1457) |
| 1461 |
|
December |
George of Bohemia rescues Frederick
from his siege in Vienna by his brother Albert VI of Austria |
| 1462 |
| 28 |
October |
Adolf of Nasasu seizes Mainz |
| 1463 |
| 3 |
December |
Albert VI of Austria dies; his
brother Frederick succeeds |
|
|
Matthias of Hungary invades Austria
and compels Frederick to cede his claims to Hungarian crown |
| 1465 |
| 8 |
December |
Pope Paul II declares George
Podebrady a heretic and deposes him from Bohemia |
| 1466 |
| 23 |
December |
Paul declares George a heretic again |
| 1469 |
| 3 |
May |
With Pope Paul's support, Matthias
of Hungary invades Bohemia; some Bohemian lords recognize him as king |
|
June |
The Bohemian estates accept
Vladislav, son of Casimir of Poland, as George's heir |
| 1470 |
|
|
Frederick II abdicates as Elector of
Brandenburg; his brother Albert III (-1486) succeeds |
| 1471 |
| 21 |
March |
George Podebrady dies; succeeded by
Vladislav II |
|
June |
Frederick III holds Imperial diet at
Regensburg, where he proclaims a general peace and receives a tax to
defend Germany against the Turk |
| 1473 |
| 30 |
July |
Frederick III and Charles of
Burgundy meet at Trier; Charles wants Frederick to make him a king, but
Frederick refuses |
| 1475 |
|
|
Frederick and Charles skirmish over
control of Cologne |
| 1477 |
| 19 |
August |
Mary of Burgundy, Charles the Bold's
daughter, marries Maximilian, Frederick's son |
| 1478 |
| 7 |
December |
Matthias of Hungary yields his claim
to Bohemia |
|
|
Albert of Brandenburg is invaded by
Matthias of Hungary, the Teutonic Knights, Pomerania, and the Hanse, but
he defeats them all |
| 1479 |
|
|
Maximilian fights the French in
Flanders |
| 1482 |
| 27 |
March |
Death of Mary of Burgundy |
| 23 |
December |
Treaty of Arras sets peace between
Louis XI and Maximilian |
| 1486 |
| 16 |
February |
Maximilian elected King of the
Romans (-1517) |
| 1487 |
|
July |
Swabian League formed to oppose the
Wittelsbachs |
| 1488 |
| 5 |
February |
Maximilian held prisoner (to May 16)
in Ghent |
| 1490 |
| 16 |
March |
Maximilian obtains the Tyrol by
grant from Count Sigismund |
| 1491 |
|
|
Maximilian recognizes Vladislav as
King of Hungary |