Maria Theresa of

Austria
Marija Tereza Ivančić, 4.B
XII. grammar school
 Table of contents
● early life
● marriage
● children
● start of her reign
● reforms
● wars
● end of her reign
 Early life
• born May 13, 1717 in Vienna
• eldest daughter of Charles VI and Elizabeth of Brunswick-
Wolfenbüttel
• Pragmatic Sanction
 Marriage
● big question since birth
● possible suitors were Leopold Clement of Lorraine, Frederick of
Prussia
● 1736 Francis Stephen – Augustinian Church
● infidelity - Maria Wilhelmina, Princess of Auersperg
Wedding of Francis Stephen and Maria Theresa
 Children
● 16 children from 1737 to 1756
● Maria Elisabeth was her first daughter
● Joseph was her first son born 1741
● smallpox - deathly illness for
the imperial family
● pregnancies during wars
The Empress with her children
 Start of her reign
● Charles VI died on 20 October 1740
● left Austria in a bankrupted state
● Maria Theresa did not know matters of the state, she turned to her husband
● 1740 - Francis Stephen becomes co - ruler of Austrian lands
 Reforms
● abolished tax exemptions for great landowners
● limited the use of forced labour
● higher education
● law changes
 Wars
● War of the Austrian Succession 1740 – 1748
● Treaty of Aachen – end of the war
● Seven Years' War 1756 – 1763
● Treaty of Hubertusburg 1763, Paris
 End of her reign
● Francis Stephan died in August 1765
● Joseph named co-ruler in September 1765
● Maria Theresa had many diseases such as smallpox, insomnia,
edema
● she died on November 29 1780
● with her died the House of Habsburg
Imperial Crypt in Vienna
 Literature
● https://www.britannica.com/biography/Maria-Theresa#ref4609
● https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Theresa
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