Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor

Ferdinand von Habsburg

Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I. From the House of Habsburg, he became Archduke of Austria in 1521, King of Bohemia and Hungary in 1526, King of the Romans in 1531, and Holy Roman Emperor following the abdication of his older brother Charles V in 1556. While dealing with wars against the Ottoman Empire and conflicts arising from the Reformation, he organized the administrative structures of Austria, Bohemia, and Hungary. Though not particularly prominent as a military commander, he played a crucial role in administration and diplomacy, and was heavily involved in establishing the Peace of Augsburg in 1555.

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Year	Ferdinand von Habsburg
1503	Birth of Ferdinand von Habsburg (Period: March 10, 1503, Location: Alcalá de Henares, Community of Madrid, Spain)
1515	Vienna Double Marriage (Ferdinand von Habsburg, Age: 11 years old, Period: 1515, Location: Vienna, St. Stephen's Cathedral)
1521	Beginning of Rule over the Austrian Archduchies (Age: 17 years old, Period: 1521–1522, Location: Austria, Innsbruck, etc.) Marriage (Ferdinand von Habsburg, Anne of Bohemia and Hungary, Age: 18 years old, Period: May 26, 1521, Location: Linz, Austria)
1526	Hungarian Civil War / Little War in Hungary (Age: 22 years old, Period: c. 1526–1540s, Location: Kingdom of Hungary, Transylvania, etc.) Acquisition of the Bohemian and Hungarian Thrones (Ferdinand von Habsburg, Age: 22 years old, Period: 1526–1527, Location: Bohemia, Hungary) Battle of Mohács (Age: 23 years old, Period: August 29, 1526, Location: Mohács (present-day Hungary)) Election as King of Bohemia (Age: 23 years old, Period: October 24, 1526, Location: Prague, Bohemia) Election and Coronation as King of Hungary (Ferdinand von Habsburg, Age: 23 years old, Period: December 1526 – November 1527, Location: Pozsony (present-day Bratislava), Székesfehérvár)
1529	Ottoman–Habsburg Wars (Age: 25 years old, Period: 1566, Location: Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian border region, etc.) Siege of Vienna (Age: 26 years old, Period: September–October 1529, Location: Vienna, Austria)
1531	Election as King of the Romans (Maximilian von Habsburg, Age: 27 years old, Period: January 5, 1531, Location: Cologne, Holy Roman Empire)
1532	Religious Peace of Nuremberg (Age: 28 years old, Period: 1532, Location: Nuremberg, Germany)
1533	Establishment of Vienna as the Main Seat of Rule (Ferdinand von Habsburg, Age: 29 years old, Period: From 1533, Location: Vienna, Austria)
1546	Schmalkaldic War (Age: 42 years old, Period: 1546–1547, Location: Holy Roman Empire, especially Central and Southern Germany)
1547	1547 Bohemian Estates Rebellion (Age: 43 years old, Period: 1547, Location: Kingdom of Bohemia, Prague, etc.)
1551	Treaty of Weissenburg (Age: 47 years old, Period: 1551, Location: Transylvania, Hungary)
1552	Second War of Kappel / 1552 Ottoman Military Invasion (Age: 48 years old, Period: 1552, Location: Kingdom of Hungary, Eger, etc.)
1555	Peace of Augsburg (Age: 51 years old, Period: September 25, 1555, Location: Augsburg)
1556	Abdication of Charles V and Ferdinand's Succession as Emperor (Age: 52 years old, Period: 1556–1558, Location: Holy Roman Empire, Frankfurt, etc.) Establishment of the Court Council of War (Age: 52 years old, Period: 1556, Location: Vienna)
1562	Election of Maximilian as King of the Romans (Age: 59 years old, Period: December 1562, Location: Frankfurt, Holy Roman Empire)
1564	Death of Ferdinand von Habsburg (Age: 61 years old, Period: July 25, 1564) Death of Ferdinand I (Age: 61 years old, Period: July 25, 1564, Location: Vienna, Austria)

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Holy Roman Emperor	Maximilian von Habsburg Karl von Habsburg Ferdinand von Habsburg Rudolf von Habsburg Maria von Habsburg Maria von Spanien
German Reformation	Martin Luther Philip Melanchthon Andreas Karlstadt Thomas Müntzer Martin Bucer Johannes Oecolampadius Georg Spalatin
German Renaissance Art	Albrecht Dürer Hans Holbein Lucas Maler Lucas Sunder Albrecht Altdorfer Matthias Grünewald
Polish Science	Nicolaus Copernicus Marcin Bylica Jan Łaski Jan Kanty Broziński

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