Maria Theresa Inherits the Habsburg Lands
October 20, 1740
Charles VI died, having spent decades securing the Pragmatic Sanction. His twenty-three-year-old daughter, pregnant with her fourth child, found the treasury empty, the army unpaid, and her neighbors licking their lips. She would prove the most formidable Habsburg since Charles V. The War of the Austrian Succession was hours away.
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Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.
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