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Schmalkaldic War (1546–53) - events| July 1546 | Holy Roman Empire | The army of the German Protestant Schmalkaldic League, under Sebastian Schärtlin von Burtenbach, occupies the free city of Donauwörth; its strategy in the Schmalkaldic War is to occupy the Habsburg Tirol, thus isolating Germany from reinforcement from Italy. | | September–November 1546 | Holy Roman Empire, Germany | The Holy Roman Emperor Charles V takes the cities of Memmingen, Biberach, Heilbronn, Esslingen, and Reutlingen; the Protestant Schmalkaldic League in Swabia disintegrates. | | 23–29 December 1546 | Holy Roman Empire | The Schmalkaldic cities of Ulm and Frankfurt submit to the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, bringing his forces to the border of the most powerful Protestant Schmalkaldic leader, Philip, Landgrave of Hesse. | | 20 June 1547 | Holy Roman Empire, Hesse, Germany | Philip, Landgrave of Hesse, the sole unconquered member of the German Protestant Schmalkaldic League, surrenders and is taken prisoner by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V at Halle, but is assured of his life. |
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