Timeline

**EAST**

No vivente rege for Sigismund II

1580s - Albert II of Poland establishes a permanent professional army fund during the Livonian War

1581 - John III of Sweden converts to Catholicism

1590 - Boris Godunov attacks Ingria; Poland joins Sweden for aid

1592 - John III dies, succeeded by John IV Albert, who reaffirms Catholicism and the moderate faction, enraging Charles, who rises in rebellion; Albert II joins on the side of Sweden

1593 - Albert of Poland dies, succeeded by Sigismund III Albert

1594 - Peace of Teusina

1596 - Charles defeated and imprisoned, ending the Swedish Civil War

1603 - Union of Warsaw: Sigismund III Albert limits royal elections to within the house of Jagiellon

1606 - Polono-Swedish invasion of Russia

1618 - Bohemian Defenestration

1619 - Ottoman invasion of Hungary; Poland joins Austria for aid;

1620 - Treaty of Munich: Frederick V abandons all claims; Polish forced out of Moscow

1621 - Swedish forced out of Novgorod

1622 - Sigismund III dies; Russian civil war; Osman II avoids assassination by the janissaries; Janissary Revolt (until 1623); Safavid invasion of Baghdad

1625 - Treaty of Buda: inconclusive peace

1626 - Swedish invasion of Russia in aid of Novgorod

1632 - Treaty of Tver: Novgorod re-established as a state?

**WEST**

1575 - Henry ascends the throne as Henry III of France

1576 - Henry III marries Elizabeth Vasa of Sweden

1576-1577 - Sixth War

1579-1580 - Seventh War

1580 - Henry, Dauphin of France is born

1584 - Gebhard von Waldburg resigns his position as per Treaty of Augsburg

(1584 - Francis, Duke of Anjou dies)

1585 - Henry III declines sovereignty over the Dutch

1588-1590 - Eighth War (no Spanish subsidy)

1590 - Treaty of Utrecht(?):

1. End of hostilities between England and Spain
2. Elizabeth of England retracts her protectorate
3. All provinces recognize Philip II as Sovereign
4. Dutch Republic dissolved
5. Religious freedom granted to Lutherans

1592 - Succession Crisis of Strasbourg

1595-1596 - Ninth War

1597 - Peace of Strasbourg:

1. Reaffirmation of the Peace of Augsburg
2. Separation of the Prince-Bishopric of Strasbourg and the Free Imperial City of Strasbourg
3. Prince-Bishopric to remain Catholic under Cardinal Lorraine, John George of Brandenburg becomes the first governor of the City

1596 - Henry III of Navarre dies in battle; Henry II of Rohan ascends the throne as Henry IV of Navarre

1599 - Henry IV of Navarre marries Barbara of Sweden

1601 - Tenth War

1602 - Henry III of France dies; Henry, Dauphin of France ascends the throne as Henry IV

1603-1604 - Eleventh War, Treaty of Marseille; conversion of Henry IV of Navarre to Catholicism by treaty

1607 - Henry of Guise dies

1611-1613 - War of Julich Succession, tensions between Catholics and Protestants mount

1619 - Spanish occupation of the Palatinate

1620 - Frederick V restored to the Palatinate as per Treaty of Munich

*1622 - Wolfgang William of Neuburg converts to Catholicism?*

*1637 - hollander rebellion? (France invades and gets england and spain involved in war)*

*1639 - war of Brunswick succession? (main wolfenbuttel line dies out on a protestant, the other line is still catholic, main brunswick line doesn't like it)*

*1641 - War of Pomeranian Succession? (Brandenburg vs Poland)*