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Hace 10 horas · If he joined the French against the British in the hope of annexing Hanover, he might fall victim to an Austro-Russian attack. The hereditary elector of Saxony, Frederick Augustus II, was also elective King of Poland as Augustus III, but the two territories were physically separated by Brandenburg and Silesia.
Hace 5 días · Hohenzollern Castle, near Hechingen, was built in the mid-19th century by Frederick William IV of Prussia on the remains of the castle founded in the early 11th century. Alpirsbach Abbey, founded by the Hohenzollerns in 1095. Zollern, from 1218 Hohenzollern, was a county of the Holy Roman Empire.
Hace 1 día · On 1 August 1425 Sigismund enfeoffed the Wettinian Frederick as Prince-Elector of Saxony, despite the protests of Eric V. Thus the Saxon territories remained permanently separated.
Once they secured the Saxon and the Brandenburg (Frederick II) votes (through French diplomatic and political manuevering), the election of Charles VII was inevitable. As George II was faced with a French invasion of Hanover , he managed to secure Hanoverian neutrality (which he would later bend to breaking point by sending Hanoverian troops to join the Pragmatic Army "under British command ...
Hace 4 días · What remained of Saxony in 1815 joined the German Confederation. A decade and a half later, then-King Anthony had to cede power to a constitutional government as the result of an uprising. In the wider outbreaks known as the Revolutions of 1848, a later king, Frederick Augustus II, gave up still more power.
Hace 5 días · The electors Augustus I and Augustus II modernized the city in the Baroque and Rococo styles in the late 17th and 18th centuries, rebuilding New Town (burned in 1685) and founding Friedrichstadt, northwest of Old Town. The Treaty of Dresden (1745), between Prussia, Saxony, and Austria, ended the second Silesian War and confirmed ...
Hace 2 días · Eventually, the Dutch Republic and Saxony joined Austria and England, forming the Quadruple Alliance, to fight France. The 1745 Treaty of Dresden ended the main fighting. In exchange for allowing Frederick II to annex Silesia, Maria Theresa won the right to be recognized as Empress and for her husband to be recognized as emperor consort.
