Pragmatic Sanction Proclaimed
April 19, 1713
Emperor Charles VI, lacking a male heir, promulgated a decree allowing his eldest daughter to inherit the Habsburg lands. He would spend the next twenty-seven years bribing and badgering the courts of Europe to accept it. At his death they would mostly tear the paper up, and Maria Theresa would fight.
In context
Also in 1713 (3 other events on record)
- Treaty of Utrecht · Europe · Politics
- Kangxi's Imperial Encyclopedia · East Asia · Culture
- Papal Bull Unigenitus · Europe · Religion
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Era
Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.