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In what year did Ferdinand II become the Holy Roman Emperor?
1610
1600
1619
1637
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Ferdinand II was crowned Holy Roman Emperor in 1619, after his father, Maximilian II, died. He was a member of the House of Habsburg and had previously been the King of Bohemia and Hungary. Ferdinand was a staunch Catholic and his reign saw the outbreak of the Thirty Years' War, a conflict that would last for over 30 years and devastate much of Europe.
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