|
1255 |
|
Ottokar carried on a successful campaign in support of the Teutonic Knights against the heathen Prussians. | 1 |
|
1260 |
|
After defeating the Hungarians, Ottokar took from them the province of Styria. | 2 |
|
1269 |
|
Ottokar, taking advantage of the interregnum in the German Empire, extended his power over Carinthia, Carniola, and Istria. | 3 |
|
1273 |
|
Election of Rudolf of Habsburg as king of Germany. Ottokar refused to recognize him. The Diet of Regensburg (1274) therefore declared all Ottokar's acquisitions void. The king, supported by the Hungarians and by some of the Bohemian nobility, attacked Ottokar, who agreed to give up all but Bohemia and Moravia, and to recognize Rudolf's suzerainty even over these. | 4 |
|
1278 |
|
New war between Rudolf and Ottokar. Ottokar was decisively defeated on the Marchfeld (Aug. 26) and killed. | 5 |
|
12781305 |
|
Rule of Wenceslas (Vaclav) II, a boy of seven, for whom Otto of Brandenburg at first acted as regent. | 6 |
|
1300 |
|
Wenceslas was elected and crowned king of Poland. | 7 |
|
1301 |
|
His son, Wenceslas, was elected king of Hungary (ruled to 1304). | 8 |
|
13056 |
|
Wenceslas (Vaclav) III. He gave up the claim to Hungary and was murdered while en route to Poland to suppress a revolt of the nobles. End of the Premyslid line. (See Bohemia) | 9 |
|
|