Ferdinand Of Styria As King Of Bohemia (1618-1629)

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The 30 years war was a time when the holy roman emperor, Ferdinand ll, of Bohemia tried to take control of his peoples religious activities. This brought many rebellions. The war brought in many outsiders, like Europe, Sweden, France, Spain, and Austria and all on German land. This war had many out comes like, 1) it did completely reshape how the Europe’s religious and political central map. There have also been many a argument about if it is a series of separate wars that went on. In the 1618-1629 part, in 1617 the Bohemian Diet elected Ferdinand of Styria as king of Bohemia. And in 1618 people began to realize this is real when some “rebels” threw two catholic members of the Bohemian royal council from a window about seventy feet above the
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