Charles VI and the Pragmatic Sanction

Charles VI

Born as the third son of Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I, he was a Habsburg monarch who became Holy Roman Emperor in 1711 after the death of his elder brother, Joseph I. During the War of the Spanish Succession, he claimed the throne of Spain as Charles III, but ultimately relinquished his claim to the Spanish crown, losing many of Spain's territories. Subsequently, his primary diplomatic goal was securing the succession of his family's lands for his daughter, Maria Theresa, issuing the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 to recognize female succession. Though he temporarily expanded his territories through wars with the Ottoman Empire, he suffered defeat in the war of 1737–1739, losing lands including Belgrade. He died in 1740 without leaving a male heir, which led directly to the outbreak of the War of the Austrian Succession.

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Year	Charles VI
1685	Birth of Charles VI (Period: October 1, 1685, Location: Vienna (present-day Austria))
1700	Succession to the Claim of the Spanish Throne (Charles VI, Age: 14 years old, Period: 1700–1703, Location: Vienna, Spain)
1701	War of the Spanish Succession (Age: 15 years old, Period: 1701–1714, Location: Western Europe, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, etc.)
1703	Proclamation of Title as King Charles III of Spain (Age: 17 years old, Period: September 19, 1703, Location: Vienna)
1704	Spanish Campaign (Charles VI, Age: 18 years old, Period: 1704–1711, Location: Spain, especially Catalonia)
1705	Stay in Barcelona and Governance of Catalonia (Age: 19 years old, Period: 1705–1711, Location: Barcelona, Catalonia)
1708	Marriage (Charles VI, Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Age: 22 years old, Period: August 1, 1708, Location: Santa Maria del Mar Church, Barcelona)
1713	Acquisition of International Recognition for the Pragmatic Sanction (Age: 27 years old, Period: 1713–1739, Location: Courts of European Countries)
1716	Austro-Turkish War (Age: 30 years old, Period: 1663–1664, Location: Kingdom of Hungary, Border Region of Austria-Hungary)
1718	War of the Quadruple Alliance (Age: 32 years old, Period: 1718–1720, Location: Italy, Sicily, Mediterranean region) Territorial Expansion via the Treaty of Passarowitz (Age: 32 years old, Period: 1718, Location: Passarowitz (present-day Požarevac, Serbia))
1722	Establishment of the Ostend Company (Age: 36 years old, Period: 1722–1731, Location: Ostend (present-day Belgium)) Approval of the Pragmatic Sanction by the Hungarian Diet (Age: 36 years old, Period: 1722–1723, Location: Pozsony (present-day Bratislava)) Charter of the Ostend Company (Age: 37 years old, Period: December 1722, Location: Ostend, Austrian Netherlands)
1733	War of the Polish Succession (Age: 47 years old, Period: 1733–1735, Location: Rhine River Basin, Western Germany, etc.)
1737	Austro-Russian-Turkish War (Age: 51 years old, Period: 1737–1739, Location: Serbia, Bosnia, Wallachia, Balkan Peninsula)
1739	Treaty of Belgrade (Age: 53 years old, Period: September 18, 1739, Location: Belgrade (present-day Serbia))
1740	Death of Charles VI (Age: 55 years old, Period: October 20, 1740) Extinction of the Male Line of the House of Habsburg (Age: 55 years old, Period: October 20, 1740, Location: Vienna)

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Roman Empire	Rudolf II Matthias Ferdinand II Ferdinand Ernst Leopold I Charles VI Maria Theresa
Habsburg Family	Leopold Felician Prince Eugene Kara Mustafa Pasha Jan Sobieski Charles V
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