"Ring of Fire"@en . "1618"^^ . "1619"^^ . . "1617"^^ . "Archduke of Inner Austria"@en . . . . . . . . "1637"^^ . . . "Ferdinand II (July 9, 1578 \u2013 February 15, 1637), of the House of Habsburg, ruled as Holy Roman Emperor (1619-1637), King of Bohemia (1617-1619, 1620-1637), King of Hungary (1618-1625). A devout and very pious Catholic, Ferdinand's recognition as King of Bohemia and suppression of Protestantism precipitated the early events of the Thirty Years' War, and he remained one of the staunchest backers of the Anti-Protestant Counter Reformation efforts as one of the heads of the German Catholic League, prolonging the Thirty Years' Wars by insisting the Edict of Restitution be enforced. The duration of his reign was occupied by confessional and military concerns, and some historians blame him for the large civilian loss of life in the Sack of Magdeburg in 1631, as he'd instructed Count Tilly to enforce the edict upon Saxony\u2014his orders causing Tilly to move the Catholic armies east, ultimately to Leipzig, where they suffered their first substantial defeat at the first battle of Breitenfeld."@en . . . . "Archduke of Austria"@en . "Holy Roman Emperor, King of Bohemia, King of Hungary"@en . "1590"^^ . . "Ferdinand II (July 9, 1578 \u2013 February 15, 1637), of the House of Habsburg, ruled as Holy Roman Emperor (1619-1637), King of Bohemia (1617-1619, 1620-1637), King of Hungary (1618-1625). A devout and very pious Catholic, Ferdinand's recognition as King of Bohemia and suppression of Protestantism precipitated the early events of the Thirty Years' War, and he remained one of the staunchest backers of the Anti-Protestant Counter Reformation efforts as one of the heads of the German Catholic League, prolonging the Thirty Years' Wars by insisting the Edict of Restitution be enforced. The duration of his reign was occupied by confessional and military concerns, and some historians blame him for the large civilian loss of life in the Sack of Magdeburg in 1631, as he'd instructed Count Tilly to enfo"@en . . . . . "1632"^^ . "September, 1634"@en . . . . "Direct"@en . . "King in Germany"@en . "1634"^^ . . "Holy Roman Emperor"@en . . . "6"^^ . . . "Ferdinand II"@en . "1578"^^ . . "Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor"@en . "King of Bohemia"@en . . "2"^^ . . . . "Maria Anna of Bavaria, Eleonora Gonzaga"@en . . . "Natural causes"@en . "King of Hungary"@en . "Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor"@en . "Archduke of Further Austria"@en . . "Natural Causes"@en .