Did the Thirty Years' War include Austria?

Question

I'm making a pop-up book in history about different people and countries and one of them is Austria. In my book it is talking about the thirty years' war and then talks about Austria so I can't tell if Austria is just in there by it or if Austria was involved in the war.

Answer 1

Austria STARTED it! The 30 Years War began in 1618 when a man, Frederick, Count Palatine of the Rhine, accepted election as King of Bohemia. In those days, according to feudal law, the Holy Roman Emperor Matthias (also called emperor of Austria or Germany, Habsburg), had a "right" to be elected King of Bohemia when the throne fell vacant. Frederick went to Prague, in what is now gthe Czech Republic, and was crowned. He is called "The Winter King," because he only lasted the winter before the Austrians threw him out. The resistants were defeated at the Battle of the White Mountain, 1621.

This struggle has created a question on the SAT's (LOL!) "What was the Defenestratrion of Prague?" I took the SAT's in 1954, and I got it right. "Fenestra" is Latin for "window." In the 1950's, we had Latin in high school. You poor kids! So "defenestration" is throwing out of the window. When the representatives from the Austrian Emperor came to Prague to call the nobles of Bohemia to their senses and elect the only obvious candidate as King, they met on the second floor of the palace, and they threw the Austrian delagates out of the window.

Answer 2

Perhaps you should read up on it. That war involved the whole of former Catholic (continental)Europe, with the territories of Spain and Portugal the least involved (they still had soldiers fighting), but everybody else was in it.

Answer 3

YES