Eventos
Count Radbot Builds the Hawks castleThe Great Interregnum ends with the election of a habsburgsAustria is brought into habsburg rule after the death of Otakar the 2nd1485
Matthias Corvinus, king of Hungary, captures Vienna and makes the city his capital1487
The Fuggers make their first loan to a Habsburg archduke, beginning a profitable link with the dynasty1490
On the death of Matthias Corvinus, in 1490, the Habsburgs recover Vienna from the Hungarians1496 Philip, heir to Austria, marries Joanna, a daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain, in the second of the great Habsburg marital alliances1519
Charles V borrows 852,000 florins, mainly from the Fuggers, to bribe the seven imperial electors1547
Hungary is divided, by agreement between the Turkish sultan Suleiman I and the Habsburg ruler Ferdinand I1556
Charles V abdicates, handing the Netherlands and Spain to his son Philip and the title of Holy Roman emperor to his brother FerdinandSplit of the family tree between the Austrian Branch and the Spanish BranchPeríodos
1291
The Swiss forest districts of Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden sign an Everlasting League to resist Habsburg domination
1315
The Swiss, defeating the Habsburgs at Morgarten, make lethal use of their halberds
1350
William Tell a figure of legend epitomizes the struggle of the Swiss farmers against their feudal overlords
1499
The Swiss War ends with the treaty of Basel, bringing Swiss independence from the Habsburg empire
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