Joseph II Becomes Holy Roman Emperor
1765
After his father's death, Joseph joined his mother Maria Theresa as co-ruler. Where she was pious and cautious, he was impatient and radical - a reader of Voltaire who dreamed of reforming the Habsburg lands from the top down. Mother and son would spend twenty years quarreling about how fast.
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Also in 1765 (4 other events on record)
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Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.