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War of the Austrian Succession (1740–46) - events| 20 October 1740 | Habsburg Monarchy, Bavaria, Holy Roman Empire,Russia, Germany, Saxony, Spain, UK, United Netherlands | Following the death of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI, the last Habsburg emperor, he is succeeded in the Habsburg domains (by virtue of the Pragmatic Sanction) by his daughter Maria Theresa. She becomes queen of Bohemia and Hungary and archduchess of Austria. The succession is disputed three times. The first instance is by Charles Albert, elector of Bavaria, who is married to a daughter of Joseph I, the former emperor and older brother of Charles VI, and who is a claimant by the will of the earlier emperor Ferdinand I. The second claim is made by Frederick Augustus II, elector of Saxony (and King Augustus III of Poland), through his wife, the eldest daughter of Joseph I. King Philip V of Spain also disputes the succession, as heir of the Spanish Habsburgs, with a particular interest in the Italian provinces. Britain and the United Netherlands support Maria Theresa while Russia remains neutral. | | 12 December 1741 | Spain, Tuscany, Holy Roman Empire, Italy | Spanish troops land in Tuscany. King Philip V of Spain is ambitious to acquire for Philip, his second son by Elizabeth Farnese, the major part of the lands of Maria Theresa, Archduchess of Austria, in Italy and, if possible, those of her consort Francis Stephen, Grand Duke of Tuscany. | | 28 July 1742 | Austria, Prussia, Silesia, Holy Roman Empire, Moravia, Bohemia, Poland, Habsburg Monarchy, Germany | The Peace of Berlin between Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria and King Frederick II (the Great) of Prussia ends the First Silesian War. The treaty confirms the provisions of the preliminary Peace of Breslau: Austria cedes to Prussia the duchy of Glatz, previously part of the Bohemian patrimony, the Moravian (formerly Jägerndorf) enclave of Katscher and, most notably, the greater part of the duchy of Silesia (with the exception of the principality of Teschen, the lordship of Hennersdorf, part of Jägerndorf, and the town of Troppau). Prussia takes over the Silesian debt to Great Britain and the United Netherlands and, in the War of the Austrian Succession, Prussia and Poland withdraw from the coalition against Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria. | | 28 December 1744 | UK, Austria, Habsburg Monarchy, Prussia, Holy Roman Empire, Saxony, Germany, Poland, United Netherlands | The Quadruple Alliance of Great Britain, Austria, Saxony and Poland (under the same ruler), and the United Netherlands is formed against Prussia. | | 20 January 1745 | Holy Roman Empire, Bavaria, Germany, Austria, Habsburg Monarchy | Following the death of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles VII (Charles Albert, elector of Bavaria), his son Maximilian Joseph of Bavaria subsequently agrees to support the candidature of Grand Duke Francis Stephen, consort of Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria, as emperor. | | 30 April 1745 | France, UK, Hanover, Germany, Holy Roman Empire, United Netherlands, Austrian Netherlands | French forces under Marshal Maurice de Saxe defeat an allied army (from Britain, Hanover, and the United Netherlands) under the English general William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, at Fontenoy (in modern Belgium) and conquer the Austrian Netherlands. | | 16 June 1746 | Austria, Habsburg Monarchy, Holy Roman Empire, Sardinia, France, Spain, Italy | Victorious at the Battle of Piacenza, Austria and Sardinia are able to expel the French and Spanish forces from the Italian kingdoms of Lombardy and Sardinia. |
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