{"slug": "margraviate-of-brandenburg", "label": "Margraviate of Brandenburg", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margraviate_of_Brandenburg", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q148499", "qid": "Q148499", "description": "Holy Roman Empire principality (1157–1806)", "entries": 24, "years": 22, "span": [1100, 1719], "span_label": ["1100 CE", "1719 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 9}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 5}, {"title": "Births", "count": 3}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 3}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 2}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "holy-roman-empire", "label": "Holy Roman Empire", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "pope-john-xxii", "label": "Pope John XXII", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "henry-ii-lord-of-mecklenburg", "label": "Henry II, Lord of Mecklenburg", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "sweden", "label": "Sweden", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ottoman-empire", "label": "Ottoman Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "russian-empire", "label": "Russian Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "austria", "label": "Austria", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "budapest", "label": "Budapest", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "electorate-of-saxony", "label": "Electorate of Saxony", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "buda", "label": "Buda", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "grand-duchy-of-lithuania", "label": "Grand Duchy of Lithuania", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "brandenburg", "label": "Brandenburg", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1100, "year_label": "1100 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Albert I (the Bear), margrave of Brandenburg (d. 1170)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365265768#Births", "title": "1100", "revid": 1365265768, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1220, "year_label": "1220 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "February 25", "text": "February 25 – Albert II, margrave of Brandenburg (b. 1177)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360552842#Deaths", "title": "1220", "revid": 1360552842, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1237, "year_label": "1237 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "John II, margrave of Brandenburg-Stendal (d. 1281)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1300110077#Births", "title": "1237", "revid": 1300110077, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1244, "year_label": "1244 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "John III of Prague, margrave of Brandenburg (d. 1268)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360513044#Births", "title": "1244", "revid": 1360513044, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1281, "year_label": "1281 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "September 10", "text": "September 10 – John II, margrave of Brandenburg-Stendal (b. 1237)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1351320525#Deaths", "title": "1281", "revid": 1351320525, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1310, "year_label": "1310 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "March 3", "text": "March 3 – Konrad I of Oleśnica and his brother Boleslaw, sons and heirs of Henry III, Duke of Głogów renounce their rights to Gdańsk Pomerania (now part of Poland) in return for payment by the principality of Brandenburg, ruled by the Margrave Heinrich I.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1332018292#January_–_March", "title": "1310", "revid": 1332018292, "section": "Events › January – March"}}, {"year": 1312, "year_label": "1312 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "April 14", "text": "April 14 – In Germany, Frederick I, Margrave of Meissen signs the Treaty of Tangermünde after having been captured by Waldemar the Great of Brandenburg. Under the treaty, Meissen cedes its territory between the Elbe River and the Elster River to Brandenburg, and Frederick the Brave pays 32,000 silver coins to Waldemar.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362487312#April_–_June", "title": "1312", "revid": 1362487312, "section": "Events › April – June"}}, {"year": 1314, "year_label": "1314 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "December 9", "text": "December 9 – Brandenburg–Pomeranian conflict: In Germany, the Margraviate of Brandenburg renounces all claims to the region around Loitz (in the modern-day northeast German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) to the Principality of Rügen in Denmark in return for payment.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373434387#October_–_December", "title": "1314", "revid": 1373434387, "section": "Events › October – December"}}, {"year": 1317, "year_label": "1317 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "March 17", "text": "March 17 – In Germany, Waldemar the Great becomes the sole ruler of the reunited Margraviate of Brandenburg upon the death of his cousin, John V, Margrave of Brandenburg-Salzwedel. Waldemar had been the Margrave of Brandenburg-Stendal since 1308.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368785088#January_–_March", "title": "1317", "revid": 1368785088, "section": "Events › January – March"}}, {"year": 1317, "year_label": "1317 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "November 25", "text": "November 25 – Treaty of Templin: After ending the war between the Margraviate of Brandenburg and Denmark, Brandenburg is forced to negotiate a truce. King Eric VI, his ally Duke Henry the Lion and Waldemar the Great sign a peace treaty in Templin. Brandenburg agrees to transfer Burg Stargard and Arnsberg castle to Mecklenburg. They also surrender the territories of Schlawe-Stolp, located on the Baltic coast, to Pomerania.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368785088#October_–_December", "title": "1317", "revid": 1368785088, "section": "Events › October – December"}}, {"year": 1320, "year_label": "1320 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "January 20", "text": "January 20 – Duke Władysław I Łokietek (\"Ladislaus the Short\") becomes king of a reunited Poland, after receiving the approval from Pope John XXII. He is crowned, along with his wife Jadwiga of Kalisz, at the royal cathedral on Wawel Hill at Kraków. Wladysław's kingdom is surrounded by three hostile neighbors: Brandenburg, the Teutonic Order and Bohemia. Looking for allies, he makes an alliance with Charles I, ruler of Hungary.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1353685641#January_–_March", "title": "1320", "revid": 1353685641, "section": "Events › January – March"}}, {"year": 1325, "year_label": "1325 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May 24", "text": "May 24 – In Germany, Henry II, Lord of Mecklenburg cedes the territories of Prignitz and the Uckermark to the Margraviate of Brandenburg in an unfavorable peace treaty signed at Daber (modern-day Dobra Nowogardzka in Poland).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366485647#April_–_June", "title": "1325", "revid": 1366485647, "section": "Events › April – June"}}, {"year": 1326, "year_label": "1326 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "February 10", "text": "February 10 – The Raid on Brandenburg begins as Polish-Lithuanian forces led by Władysław I Łokietek, \"the elbow-high\", King of Poland, and of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania under Gediminas, raid the territories of the Margraviate of Brandenburg (within the Holy Roman Empire), with the sanction of Pope John XXII. Władysław regards the Neumark (East Brandenburg) as Polish territory.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367237136#January_–_March", "title": "1326", "revid": 1367237136, "section": "Events › January – March"}}, {"year": 1373, "year_label": "1373 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "May 17", "text": "May 17 – The dukes of the various duchies of Pomerania, enter into an alliance in a meeting at Kaseburg (now Karsibor in Poland) to resist the expansion of the neighboring state of Brandenburg.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369605206#April–June", "title": "1373", "revid": 1369605206, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1413, "year_label": "1413 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "November 19", "text": "November 19 – The alliance between the Margraviate of Brandenburg and the Duchy of Pomerania-Wolgast against the Duchy of Pomerania-Stettin is renewed.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1357114633#October–December", "title": "1413", "revid": 1357114633, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1426, "year_label": "1426 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "October 12", "text": "October 12 – Uckermark War (1425–1427): Representing Brandenburg, the Elector Friedrich and his son Johann \"the alchemist\" sign a treaty with William of Werle, ruler of one of the opposing states of Mecklenburg. Friedrich and Johann had recaptured the town of Prenzlau on August 23.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360579570#October–December", "title": "1426", "revid": 1360579570, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1445, "year_label": "1445 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "September 12", "text": "September 12 – In a royal wedding at the Church of Our Lady in Copenhagen, King Christoffer III of Denmark (who also rules Sweden and Norway) marries Dorothea of Brandenburg, daughter of John the Alchemist, Margrave of Brandenburg. After King Christoffer's death in 1448, Dorothea marries King Christian I of Denmark in 1449.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370372937#July–September", "title": "1445", "revid": 1370372937, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1448, "year_label": "1448 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "May 3", "text": "May 3 – The Treaty of Prenzlau is signed between in Germany by the Margraviate of Brandenburg and the Duchy of Pomerania, both principalities within the Holy Roman Empire. The treaty partitions the disputed territory of the Uckermark, with Brandenburg receiving the southern part and Pomerania the northern part, with rights for Brandenburg to receive the north if Pomerania's ruling house should become extinct.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367832753#April–June", "title": "1448", "revid": 1367832753, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1609, "year_label": "1609 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "June 10", "text": "June 10 – The War of the Jülich Succession begins as the Margraviate of Brandenburg and the Duchy of Palatinate-Neuburg sign a treaty at Dortmund and then send troops to establish Protestant Union rule in the Roman Catholic United Duchies of Jülich-Cleves-Berg.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365588617#April–June", "title": "1609", "revid": 1365588617, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1610, "year_label": "1610 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "July 28", "text": "July 28 – War of the Jülich Succession: The Siege of Jülich, a walled city within the Holy Roman Empire (now in Germany), is started by a combined force of troops from the Dutch Republic, the Kingdom of France and the Margraviate of Brandenburg.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361322431#July–September", "title": "1610", "revid": 1361322431, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1610, "year_label": "1610 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "October 24", "text": "October 24 – The War of the Jülich Succession ends as the Protestant Union (including Margraviate of Brandenburg Brandenburg and Electoral Palatinate) and the Catholic League (led by the Duchy of Bavaria) agree to withdraw their forces from Germany and to disband them by year's end.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361322431#October–December", "title": "1610", "revid": 1361322431, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1675, "year_label": "1675 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May 15", "text": "May 15 – After an invasion and attempt to take over the German principality of Brandenburg, the army of Sweden makes its first conquest, forcing the surrender of the fortress at Löcknitz.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365992546#April–June", "title": "1675", "revid": 1365992546, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1686, "year_label": "1686 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "September 2", "text": "September 2 – Great Turkish War: Battle of Buda – Imperial forces of the Holy League of 1684 (Russia, Saxony, Brandenburg and Bavaria under Austrian leadership) liberate Buda (now part of Budapest) from Ottoman Turkish rule (leading to the end of Ottoman rule in Hungary during subsequent years).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368502958#July–September", "title": "1686", "revid": 1368502958, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1719, "year_label": "1719 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": null, "text": "Europe's first systematic population census is taken in the Kingdom of Prussia's Margraviate of Brandenburg.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365415998#Undated", "title": "1719", "revid": 1365415998, "section": "Events › Undated"}}]}