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| 1627 |
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| Tilly and Wallenstein conquered Holstein. Wallenstein alone subdued Schleswig and Jutland, drove the dukes of Mecklenburg from their country, and forced the duke of Pomerania into submission. | 1 |
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| 1628 |
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| Wallenstein besieged Stralsund. Heroic defense of the citizens for ten weeks obliged Wallenstein to raise the siege. | 2 |
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| 1629, March 29 |
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| EDICT OF RESTITUTION: (1) Agreeably to the ecclesiastical reservation, all ecclesiastical estates that had been confiscated since the convention of Passau (1552) should be restored. (2) Only the adherents of the Augsburg Confession were to have free exercise of religion; all other “sects” were to be broken up. Beginning of a merciless execution of the edict by Wallenstein's troops and those of the league. | 3 |
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| 1629, May 22 |
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| TREATY OF LÜBECK, between the emperor and Christian IV. The latter received his lands back but promised not to interfere in German affairs and abandoned his allies. | 4 |
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| 1630 |
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| Electoral Assembly at Regensburg. The party of Bavaria and the league was hostile to Wallenstein and took up a position of determined opposition to the too powerful general. An excuse was found in the well-grounded complaints of all states of the empire, particularly the Catholics, about the terrible extortion and cruelty practiced by Wallenstein's army. The emperor consented to decree the dismissal of the general and a large part of the army. | 5 |
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