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Facts

Date November 8, 1620
Location Bohemia • Czech Republic • Prague
Participants Catholic League • House of Habsburg • Protestant Union
Context Thirty Years’ War

Photos

White Mountain, Battle of
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Timeline

Eighty Years' War
Eighty Years’ War
1568 - 1648
White Mountain, Battle of
Battle of White Mountain
November 8, 1620
The Battle of Dessau, 1626
Battle of Dessau
April 25, 1626
The Siege of Magdeburg
Sack of Magdeburg
November 1630 - May 20, 1631
King Gustav II Adolf of Sweden at the Battle of Breitenfeld
Battle of Breitenfeld
September 17, 1631
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Battle of Lützen
November 16, 1632
Europe after the Thirty Years' War, 1648
Battle of Nördlingen
September 5, 1634 - September 6, 1634
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Battle of Wittstock
October 4, 1636
The Duke d'Enghien at the Battle of Rocroi, 1643
Battle of Rocroi
May 19, 1643
Henri, Viscount of Turenne
Battle of Freiburg
August 3, 1644 - August 9, 1644

Key People

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Maximilian I
duke of Bavaria
Tilly, detail from an engraving by G. Kölez, 1631
Johann Tserclaes, count von Tilly
Bavarian general
Frederick V, detail of a portrait by an unknown artist, c. 1620; in the Historisches Museum der Pfalz, Speyer, Ger.
Frederick V
elector Palatine of the Rhine
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Christian of Anhalt
Protestant prince
René Descartes
René Descartes
French mathematician and philosopher

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