Leopold I: Defender of the Habsburg Realm

Leopold Felician

A Holy Roman Emperor from the House of Habsburg who reigned for approximately 47 years from 1658 to 1705. Concurrently serving as King of Hungary, King of Bohemia, and King of Croatia, he made the rivalry with King Louis XIV of France and the wars against the Ottoman Empire the centerpiece of his diplomatic and military policies. During the Great Turkish War, following the Siege of Vienna, he restored most of Hungary to Habsburg control and strengthened the governing foundation of the House of Habsburg within the Holy Roman Empire. Furthermore, he was a devout Catholic heavily influenced by the Jesuits, and also was active as a musician and composer.

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Year	Leopold Felician
1640	Birth of Leopold Felician (Period: June 9, 1640, Location: Vienna (present-day Austria))
1655	Second Northern War (Age: 14 years old, Period: 1655–1660, Location: Poland–Lithuania, Transylvania, Denmark, and Northeastern Europe) Election as King of Hungary (Leopold Felician, Age: 14 years old, Period: 1655, Location: Pressburg (present-day Bratislava, Slovakia))
1656	Accession as King of Bohemia and King of Croatia (Leopold Felician, Age: 15 years old, Period: 1656–1657, Location: Prague and Croatia Region) Establishment of the Academy of Italian Literature in Vienna (Age: 15 years old, Period: 1656, Location: Vienna (present-day Austria))
1658	Election as Holy Roman Emperor (Charles von Habsburg, Age: 18 years old, Period: July 1658, Location: Frankfurt (present-day Germany))
1663	Ottoman–Habsburg Wars (Age: 22 years old, Period: 1663–1664, Location: Kingdom of Hungary, Transylvania, Austrian Border Region) Perpetual Diet of Regensburg (Age: 22 years old, Period: 1663, Location: Regensburg)
1666	Marriage (Leopold Felician, Margaret Theresa of Spain, Age: 26 years old, Period: December 12, 1666, Location: Vienna (present-day Austria))
1670	Wesselényi conspiracy and rebellion (Age: 29 years old, Period: 1670s–1680s, Location: Kingdom of Hungary) Expulsion of the Jewish Community from Vienna (Age: 29 years old, Period: c. 1670–1671, Location: Vienna (present-day Austria))
1672	Franco-Dutch War (Age: 31 years old, Period: 1672–1678, Location: Netherlands, Rhineland, Alsace Region)
1673	Marriage (Leopold Felician, Claudia Felicitas of Austria, Age: 33 years old, Period: October 15, 1673, Location: Graz Cathedral (present-day Austria))
1676	Marriage (Leopold Felician, Eleonore Magdalene of Neuburg, Age: 36 years old, Period: December 14, 1676, Location: Passau (present-day Germany))
1683	Great Turkish War (Age: 42 years old, Period: 1683–1699, Location: Vienna, Hungary, Mohács, Serbia, Balkans, etc.) Siege of Vienna (Age: 43 years old, Period: July–September 1683, Location: Vienna)
1687	Approval of the Habsburg Succession Rights by the Hungarian Diet (Age: 46 years old, Period: 1687, Location: Pressburg (present-day Bratislava, Slovakia))
1688	Nine Years' War (Age: 47 years old, Period: 1688–1697, Location: Rhineland, German States, Spanish Netherlands, and Western Europe)
1692	Approval of the Electorate of Hanover (Leopold Felician, Age: 51 years old, Period: 1692, Location: Holy Roman Empire)
1699	Treaty of Karlowitz (Age: 58 years old, Period: January 1699, Location: Karlowitz (present-day Sremski Karlovci, Serbia))
1700	Recognition of the Title of King in Prussia (Leopold I, Age: 59 years old, Period: 1700, Location: Holy Roman Empire)
1701	War of the Spanish Succession (Age: 60 years old, Period: 1701–1714, Location: Western Europe, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, etc.)
1703	Transfer of the Claim to the Spanish Throne to Charles (Age: 62 years old, Period: 1703, Location: Vienna and Holy Roman Empire)
1705	Death of Leopold Felician (Age: 64 years old, Period: May 5, 1705)

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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
Science and Astronomy	Tycho Brahe Jan Baptist van Helmont Georg Marcgrave Georg Ernst Stahl Lorenz Heister Albrecht von Haller Philip Clüver Maria Sibylla Merian Johann Georg Gmelin
Music & Art	Peter Paul Rubens Heinrich Schütz Dieterich Buxtehude Johann Pachelbel Georg Philipp Telemann Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Lucas von Hildebrandt Johann Balthasar Neumann

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