| Year | Event | |
| 1526 | Czech lands became part of Hapsburg monarchy, Ferdinand I elected as Czech king | |
| 1531 | Oldest parish book in Pilsen State Regional Archives | |
| 1545 | Council of Trent - estabilished duty to keep parish books | |
| 1558 | Oldest parish book in Litoměřice State Regional Archives | |
| 1564 | Maxmilian II elected as Czech king | |
| 1571 | Oldest parish book in Land Archives in Opava | |
| 1573 | Oldest parish book in Prague State Regional Archives | |
| 1576 | Rudolph II elected as Czech king | |
| 1579 | Oldest parish book in Moravian Land Archives in Brno | |
| 1584 | Oldest parish book in Prague Municipal Archives | |
| 1587 | Oldest parish book in Třeboň and Zámrsk State Regional Archives | |
| 1611 | Matthew II elected as Czech king | |
| 1618 | Beginning of Thirty Years' War | |
| 1619 | Ferdinand II and Frederick Palatine were elected as Czech kings | |
| 1620 | Battle of White Mountain | |
| 1637 | Ferdinand III elected as Czech king | |
| 1648 | End of Thirty Years' War | |
| 1651 | List of Serfs according to Faith created | |
| 1654 | First registry of Roll of Assessment in Bohemia began (ended
1656) Catholic religion as the only religion in Czech lands |
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| 1656 | First Hide Registry assessment in Moravia began (ended 1657) | |
| 1657 | Leopold I elected as Czech king | |
| 1669 | Second Hide Registry assessment in Moravia began (ended 1679) | |
| 1684 | Second Roll of Assessment in Bohemia | |
| 1703 | First census in Czech history | |
| 1705 | Joseph I elected as Czech king | |
| 1711 | Charles VI elected as Czech king | |
| 1713 | Last "Black Death" epidemy in monarchy | |
| 1740 | Maria Theresia became Czech queen; beginning of War of Austrian Succession | |
| 1748 | End of War of Austrian Succession | |
| 1764 | First military survey of Hapsburg monarchy (ended 1768) | |
| 1768 | Duty to keep military parish books | |
| 1770 | Houses in the monarchy numbered with the descriptive numbers Instruction about stable surnames issued |
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| 1771-1772 | Great famine - 1/10 of Czech population died; potatoes production increased by hundred of percents after the famine | |
| 1780 | Joseph II elected as Czech king | |
| 1782 | Edict of Tolerance | |
| 1784 | Parish books as public document; transformation of parish books | |
| 1790 | Leopold II elected as Czech king | |
| 1792 | Francis II elected as Czech king | |
| 1799 | Duty to keep duplicates of parish books (Bohemia) | |
| 1804 | Francis II declared to be Austrian Emperor under the name Francis I | |
| 1817 | Issued an edict which gave base to the Stabile Cadaster survey | |
| 1829 | Protestant churches allowed to keep parish books by law (they kept them before, but had no duty to do so) | |
| 1831-1832 | Huge epidemy of cholera | |
| 1835 | Ferdinand V crowned as Czech king | |
| 1836 | Second military survey of Hapsburg monarchy (ended 1852) | |
| 1848 | Franz Joseph I became Czech king | |
| 1849 | Administrative reform of Austrian part of Hapsburg monarchy - villages becase independent, serfdom cancelled Protestant parish books are also public document; protestants not anymore written in catholic books |
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| 1866 | War with Prussia; huge epidemy of cholera | |
| 1867 | Hapsburg monarchy divided to Austrian and Hungarian part | |
| 1914 | Beginning of WWI | |
| 1916 | Charles I became Czech king | |
| 1918 | End of WWI Creation of Czechoslovakia |
Emperor Joseph II. plowing during his visit in Slavíkovice
Thanks. This is great. I have St. George Catholic Kirchenbuch records of the descendants of Martin Gerstner b 1700 in (Becov Nad Teplou, Karlovy Vary, Bohemia) Petschau, Karlsbad, Bohemia, Austria. Are there any records earlier than that for residents of this vallage?
ReplyDeleteOur family names in German are Gerstner, Haintzman, Mayer, Vogl, Gerston, Stowasser. Frank Gerstner b 1809 and wife, Maria Anna Stowasser b 1810 removed to Pittsburgh, Allegheny, PA, USA about 1850.
I love the drawing Blanka! What an interesting subject!
ReplyDeleteI'm just now watching a show about the little ice age and they mentioned that Europe latched on to potatoes because they grew underground and therefore were not burned by the enimies. How interesting.
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