The Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 was a decree issued by the Habsburg emperor Charles VI to settle the succession to his lands. It declared that the Habsburg territories were indivisible and passed as a whole, and it allowed for inheritance through the female line if there was no male heir. Charles had no sons, and he spent much of his reign trying to persuade the European powers to accept the arrangement, sometimes making concessions in return. When he died in 1740 his daughter Maria Theresa succeeded him, but Prussia, Bavaria and others challenged her claim, which led to the War of the Austrian Succession. She held on to most of the Habsburg lands.
Before and after
- 24 January 1712Birth of Frederick II of Prussia
- May 1712Construction of Peter and Paul Cathedral
- 28 June 1712Birth of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- 1713Peace of Utrecht
- 1713Pragmatic Sanction of 1713
- 5 October 1713Birth of Denis Diderot
- 1714Construction of Belvedere
- 26 July 1714Battle of Gangut
- from 1715 to 1717Yamasee War
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