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    The imperial election of 1742 was an imperial election held to select the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. It took place in Frankfurt on January 24. The...
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  • Albert crowned himself king of Bohemia. On January 24, 1742, in the imperial election of 1742, from which Maria Theresa was excluded, he was elected Holy...
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    toward Prague in early 1742. Elector Charles Albert of Bavaria won the 1742 Imperial election and became Holy Roman Emperor. In July 1742 Prussia and Austria...
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    Glatz on the edge of Bohemia. In January 1742 Elector Charles Albert of Bavaria won the 1742 Imperial election and became Holy Roman Emperor. In February...
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    The attempt to create a Kingdom of Finland in 1742 is a little-known chapter in the history of Finland. After the Russian occupation during the Russo-Swedish...
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  • The following is a list of imperial elections in the Holy Roman Empire. Entries in italics are for elections where the claim of the man elected to be...
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    entitled to be addressed with the title Durchlaucht (Serene Highness). In 1742, the electors became entitled to the superlative Durchlauchtigste (Most Serene...
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    Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor (category Imperial vicars)
    of Bavaria from 26 February 1726 and Holy Roman Emperor from 24 January 1742 to his death. He was also King of Bohemia (as Charles Albert) from 1741 to...
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    Electorate of Bavaria formed the Imperial Army for a short time, from 1742 to 1745. A year after the loss of the imperial crown, the Archduchess of Austria...
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    Charles III Philip (category 1742 deaths)
    the imperial election a few days later Charles III Philip voted for his Bavarian cousin Prince-Elector Charles Albert. Upon his death in December 1742, the...
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    strikingly similar to the Westward Expansion of the United States. Between 1742 and 1867, the Russian-American Company administered Alaska as a colony. The...
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    From 1452 to the end of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806 (except in the years 1742 to 1745) only members of the House of Habsburg were Holy Roman emperors....
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    January 1742 the Imperial election was held at Frankfurt, where Bavarian Elector Charles Albert was chosen as the next Holy Roman Emperor. In early 1742 Frederick...
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    assemble for a new imperial election. During that time, imperial institutions still required oversight. This was performed by two imperial vicars. Each vicar...
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    predecessor state of the modern Czech Republic. The Kingdom of Bohemia was an Imperial State in the Holy Roman Empire. The Bohemian king was a prince-elector...
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    Bavaria in 1340. He was the last Bavarian to be a king of Germany until 1742. He became Count of Hainaut, Holland, Zeeland, and Friesland in 1345 when...
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    House in 1556 by ceding Austria along with the Imperial crown to Ferdinand (as decided at the Imperial election, 1531), and the Spanish Empire to his son Philip...
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    Confederation. McGill-Queen's University Press. pp. 174–175. ISBN 978-0-7705-1742-7. "Diplomatic Missions and Consular Posts Accredited to Canada". GAC. June...
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    period of free election ended with the ascension of the Austrian House of Habsburg, as an unbroken line of Habsburgs held the imperial throne until the...
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    himself King of Bohemia and was elected Emperor Charles VII on 24 January 1742. Charles Albert was then crowned on 12 February. On the same day as his coronation...
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    by fire. The mines were abandoned at the end of the 18th century. In May 1742 during the First Silesian War, a Prussian force under Frederick the Great...
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    government contracts, and help at election time. In turn the friends enabled them to control Parliament. Thus in 1742, over 140 members of parliament held...
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    Count Johann Caspar von Bothmer of Lauenbrück. In January 1742, on the occasion of the election of the emperor Charles VII in Frankfurt, she met William...
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    Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen (category 1742 births)
    Christina, Duchess of Teschen (Maria Christina Johanna Josepha Antonia; 13 May 1742 – 24 June 1798), was the fifth child of Maria Theresa of Austria and Francis...
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    Confederation. McGill-Queen's Press – MQUP. pp. 174–175. ISBN 978-0-7705-1742-7. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Retrieved November 22, 2015...
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    in the 1742 campaign. In December 1741, von Schwerin had captured Olmütz; Frederick took Glatz, before moving onto Groß Seelowitz in March 1742. This allowed...
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    Finnish crown jewels Grand Duchy of Finland House of Hesse Kingdom of Finland (1742) Monarchy of Finland Prince Wolfgang of Hesse United Baltic Duchy "Gemstone...
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    Russo-Swedish War (1741–1743) (category 1742 in the Russian Empire)
    December. The Russians reneged on their ceasefire agreement early in March 1742 but a harsh winter made it impossible for the main armies to operate. Light...
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  • although this had no impact on the official status of Finns or Finland. In 1742, following the Russian occupation of Finland in the Russo-Swedish War (1741–1743)...
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