r, 212.
ban of the empire declared against, 265.

ANN (Princess of Hungary and Bohemia), marriage of to Ferdinand I., 145.

ANNA (of Russia), desire of to secure a harbor for Russia, 400.

ANECDOTES of Rhodolph, 33.
of Charles V., 144.

APOLOGY of Maximilian, 96.

ASCHHAUSEN, confederacy at, 194.

AUGSBURG, diet of, 24.
bold speech of the diet at, 102.
triumphal reception of Maurice at, 133.
Confession of, 118.

AUGUSTUS II. loses and regains his empire, 382.
death of, 382.

AULIC COUNCIL, establishment of the, 102.

AUSTRIA, a portion of given as dowry to Hedwige, 25.
nucleus of the empire of, 27.
invasion of by John of Bohemia, 49.
wonderful growth of, 52.
division of, 72.
accession of Ladislaus over, 81.
the house of invested with new dignity, 101.
becomes a part of Spain, 108.
the empire of apparently on the eve of dissolution, 286.
the leading power in Europe, 314.
dispute as to the succession to the crown of, 352.
treaty between Spain and, 373.
Maria Theresa ascends the throne of, 415.
deplorable state of at that time, 415.
defeat of by Frederic, 420.
the proposed division of, 422.
prosperity of, 444.
important territory wrested from, 453.
alliance of with Prussia, 459.
Joseph II. ascends the throne of, 491.
situation and character of, 492.
languages spoken in, 493.
Leopold ascends the throne of, 500.
acquisitions of by the battle of Waterloo, 504
present constitution of, 504.
doctrines of the government of, 503.
its future, 506.

AUSTRIANS, triumph of the at Brussels, 340.
triumph of the at Malplaquet, 341.
evacuation of Madrid by the, 345.
prohibited from trading-with Spain, 380.
the, driven from the Neapolitan States, 388.
the, defeated at Crotzka, 407.

BADEN, peace of, 359.

BAJAZET, victory achieved by, 64.

BALDER, attack of Rhodolph upon, 22.

BALLOT-BOX, its authority in Poland, 385.

BALNE (Lord), followers of put to death, 40.

BANDITTI, companies of put down by Rhodolph, 32.

BARBARIA, wife of Sigismond, 60.

BARCELONA, capture of by Charles, 354.

BASLE, attack upon the city of, 20.
demands of the Bishop of upon Rhodolph, 22.
impious remark of the Bishop of, 23
aid of the Bishop of to Rhodolph, 29.

BAVARIA (Henry, Duke of), intimidated by Rhodolph, 25.
marriage of Hedwige to Otho of, 25.
agrees to carry the edict of Worms into effect, 114.
his hatred of Wallenstein, 27