Battle of Mohacs
1687
Duke Charles of Lorraine's imperial army destroyed the Ottoman forces at the second Battle of Mohacs, reversing the catastrophe of 1526. The Hungarian Diet in Pressburg declared the Habsburg crown of Hungary hereditary. The long Ottoman retreat from central Europe was now a rout in progress, and within a decade the Habsburgs would control nearly all of historic Hungary.
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Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.