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- Frederick I of Prussia (July 11, 1657 – February 25, 1713) of the ... when he adopted the title “king in Prussia” was the most powerful ...6 KB (831 words) - 00:44, 8 October 2022
- Frederick Charles Louis Constantine, prince and landgrave of the House ... His election as king of Finland resulted from the temporary ascendancy ...7 KB (1,132 words) - 07:09, 6 June 2021
- in 1618, allowed the creation of the Kingdom of Prussia in 1701, the state ... In 1788 the title was incorporated into the Kingdom of Prussia. ...30 KB (4,097 words) - 18:41, 7 February 2024
- * The Kingdom of Prussia (1701 - 1918): formed the elevation of Brandenburg ... (1829 - 1878): a province of the Kingdom of Prussia, created from the merger ...46 KB (6,764 words) - 08:22, 2 December 2022
- The Iron Cross was a military decoration of the Kingdom of Prussia, and later of Germany, which was established by King Frederick William III ...23 KB (3,657 words) - 13:20, 6 March 2024
- and philanthropist often considered as one of the fathers Reform Judaism. Germany, Jacobson married into the family of the wealthy court Jew Hertz ...13 KB (1,953 words) - 06:05, 11 March 2024
- 29, 1780) was (reigning) Archduchess of Austria and Queen of Hungary ... Continued conflict with the Kingdom of Prussia led to the Seven Years ...16 KB (2,351 words) - 04:11, 6 November 2022
- eussen_1701-1918.jpg|22px]] Kingdom of Prussia[[image:Union flag 1606 ... The Seven Years War (1756-1763) involved all the major European powers ...29 KB (4,438 words) - 10:09, 26 January 2023
- William and his inheritance of the Kingdom of Prussia. ==Kingship== ... unite the eastern territories of the Kingdom of Prussia. Giles MacDonogh, Frederick ...32 KB (4,879 words) - 10:28, 11 April 2024
- The grey girders are the original structure of the works.]] or shopping arcade is a building or set of buildings that contain retail ...16 KB (2,407 words) - 01:55, 15 December 2022
- order during the Middle Ages and much of the modern era. ... decoration and insignia by the Kingdom of Prussia and Germany as the ...34 KB (5,036 words) - 15:01, 30 April 2023
- The Battle of Tannenberg in 1914, was a decisive engagement between ... had been based on France and the United Kingdom simply halting the German ...18 KB (2,883 words) - 01:37, 26 September 2023
- | birth_place = Strzelno, Kingdom of Prussia | death_date = 1931|5 ... remembered for his work on the measurement of the speed of light, particularly ...14 KB (2,088 words) - 17:47, 19 December 2022
- poet. He was the first German realist writer of significance. Realism eschewed ... Fontane was born in Neuruppin into a Huguenot family. At the age of ...11 KB (1,589 words) - 17:55, 30 April 2023
- The Treaty of Versailles (1919) was the peace treaty that officially ... powers started on May 7, the anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania ...20 KB (3,094 words) - 16:26, 2 May 2023
- was made capital of the new Kingdom of Prussia, and while politically ... *Ruins of the greatest stronghold of the former Kingdom of Prussia. ...14 KB (2,050 words) - 04:57, 5 November 2022
- The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, known commonly as the Egyptian ... pharaonic times, was closed on the orders of President Anwar Sadat in 1981 ...12 KB (1,932 words) - 00:00, 13 February 2024
- As the way in which war is prosecuted, and the nature of war itself ... :In the royal service, Major General and Inspector of the Artillery ...24 KB (3,682 words) - 15:21, 27 November 2023
- closely with Karl Marx in the foundation of modern Communism. The son of ... in Barmen, Rhine Province of the kingdom of Prussia (now a part of Wuppertal ...22 KB (3,304 words) - 11:02, 11 April 2024
- Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, was the site of the American Continental ... appointed General Nathanael Greene head of the meager and poorly managed ...10 KB (1,539 words) - 14:15, 3 May 2023
- of Preussen 1701-1918.jpg|20px]] Kingdom of Prussia [[Image:Flag of Russia ... The Napoleonic Wars comprised a series of global conflicts fought ...46 KB (6,954 words) - 01:24, 11 November 2022
- Wilhelmina (Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Marie of Orange-Nassau) (August ... was as capable as men in the daunting task of leading her nation through ...26 KB (3,973 words) - 12:30, 2 October 2020
- Imperial Russia on one side and an alliance of the United Kingdom of Great ... The majority of the conflict took place on the Crimean peninsula in ...22 KB (3,405 words) - 06:24, 11 January 2024
- place on October 3, 1990, when the areas of the former German Democratic ... on reforms that ended with the dissolution of the Soviet Union, urged the ...20 KB (3,005 words) - 09:18, 5 December 2022
- award for study at the University of Oxford. This scholarship program ... In the context of what has been called the Scramble for Africa, Rhodes ...17 KB (2,434 words) - 20:03, 8 December 2022
- scientific circles, serving as the a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences ... from 1873-1912. He traced the influence of Hellenistic philosophy on early ...19 KB (2,919 words) - 06:02, 15 June 2023
- Army and the third and ninth Prime Minister of Japan. A general and a member ... Japanese army and instituting a system of conscription, and in organizing ...14 KB (2,206 words) - 10:08, 22 May 2023
- The largest portion lies within the borders of Poland; the rest is within ... Austrian Succession (1740-1748), the Kingdom of Prussia had conquered almost ...32 KB (4,656 words) - 22:03, 29 January 2023
- the Swedish Parliament in 1634) was founder of the Swedish Empire (or Stormaktstiden ... own time, widely regarded as the archetype of what a king should be and one ...20 KB (3,242 words) - 02:41, 27 July 2023
- Gdańsk is situated in northern Poland on the southern edge of Gdańsk ... Danzig was annexed by the Kingdom of Prussia in 1793, only to be broken ...22 KB (3,336 words) - 06:28, 18 April 2024
- and mechanics. He introduced some of the familiar notation still ... Euler was born in Basel to Paul Euler, a pastor of the Reformed Church ...33 KB (4,972 words) - 15:54, 5 July 2023
- June 4, 1738 – January 29, 1820) was King of Great Britain and King of Ireland ... It was during George III's reign that Great Britain lost many ...42 KB (6,393 words) - 10:46, 13 December 2023
- theoretician and politician, member of the SPD, and founder of evolutionary ... With the passing of Karl Marx (1818-1883) and Friedrich Engels, Eduard ...9 KB (1,198 words) - 18:16, 12 February 2024
- region including the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden ... often defined according to the conventions of different disciplines or according ...27 KB (3,890 words) - 02:32, 21 April 2023
- – March 13, 1881) was the tsar (emperor) of Russia from March 2, 1855 until ... Born in 1818, he was the eldest son of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia and ...18 KB (2,638 words) - 14:23, 18 July 2023
- colonize or interfere with the affairs of the newly independent nations ... The three main concepts of the doctrine—separate spheres of influence ...24 KB (3,682 words) - 21:11, 9 November 2022
- The Hanseatic League (also known as the Hansa) was an alliance of ... waged war but favored peace. The making of war and peace was discussed ...33 KB (4,840 words) - 13:29, 24 January 2023
- Berlin was successively the capital of the Kingdom of Prussia (1701 ... Berlin became the capital of the Kingdom of Prussia. In 1740, the philosophically ...35 KB (5,027 words) - 11:02, 28 September 2023
- Ensign of Prussia (1816).svg|border|30px]] Kingdom of Prussia ... 1871) was a conflict between France and Prussia, which was backed by the ...61 KB (9,426 words) - 14:18, 1 October 2022
- The French invasion of Russia (also known as the Russian Campaign ... ) which refers to Hitler's, rather than Napoleon's, invasion ...45 KB (6,717 words) - 10:59, 11 April 2024
- Hamburg and Munich. A key inland port of Europe, it lies on the west ... Vienna, Cologne was made part of the Kingdom of Prussia, beginning a new era ...26 KB (3,818 words) - 22:35, 7 January 2024
- January 23, 1806) was a British politician of the late eighteenth and early ... tenure, which came during the reign of George III, was dominated by ...28 KB (4,338 words) - 18:25, 17 April 2023
- The Dresdner Frauenkirche ("Church of Our Lady") is a Lutheran ... Reconstruction commenced in January 1993, under the direction of church ...20 KB (2,966 words) - 06:08, 3 August 2023
- as a British general in the American War of Independence. As a member of ... administrative systems. As Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, he argued for Catholic ...9 KB (1,361 words) - 01:57, 4 December 2023
- E. T. A. Hoffmann, was a Romantic author of fantasy and horror, a jurist ... His work combined the strong emotion of Romanticism with the elements ...31 KB (4,592 words) - 17:31, 12 February 2024
- 2, 1882) was an Italian patriot and soldier of the Risorgimento. He personally ... Nationalism was on the rise in Europe. Towards the end of Garibaldi ...22 KB (3,486 words) - 16:50, 15 December 2022
- comprising the western and central thirds of the Czech Republic. It has ... whose helm it also became an autonomous part of the Holy Roman Empire after ...30 KB (4,624 words) - 05:23, 17 November 2023
- The First Battle of Tannenberg (or Battle of Grunwald) took place ... The battle saw the Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights decisively ...42 KB (6,381 words) - 01:37, 26 September 2023
- Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, (August 26, 1676 – March 18 ... held the de facto office due to the extent of his influence in the Cabinet ...29 KB (4,445 words) - 00:47, 29 November 2022
- 2, 1754 – May 17, 1838), 1st Prince of Benevento, then Prince of Talleyrand ... peace with Austria through the 1801 Treaty of Lunéville and with Britain ...51 KB (7,312 words) - 22:21, 4 December 2023
- – January 9, 1873) was the first President of the French Republic and the ... moral failings. The leaders and the people of Post-revolutionary France lacked ...48 KB (7,305 words) - 01:24, 11 November 2022
- Spruce is the common name for any of the various coniferous evergreen ... Spruce trees provide a number of important values for human beings ...11 KB (1,545 words) - 16:15, 8 February 2023
- The term Huguenot refers to a member of the Protestant Reformed Church ... Originally used as a term of derision, the origin of the name Huguenot ...28 KB (4,156 words) - 15:10, 9 February 2024
- both the German Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia from June 15, 1888 ... the one hand, he was unhappy with the scale of the war. On the other hand ...73 KB (11,213 words) - 11:59, 5 May 2023
- [[Image:Costumes of Slaves or Serfs from the Sixth to the Twelfth ... Serfdom is the socio-economic status of unfree peasants under feudalism ...31 KB (4,884 words) - 09:56, 26 January 2023
- He served as ambassador to the United Kingdom for five years, during which ... He attended college at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania ...16 KB (2,264 words) - 22:11, 3 May 2023
- The union of Austria and Hungary, also known as the Dual (that of ... The newly created Austro-Hungarian Empire was a good example of a ...36 KB (5,334 words) - 18:41, 22 August 2023
- Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas George Mountbatten ... Gandhi but was unable to avoid the Partition of India, although he would have ...36 KB (5,344 words) - 04:07, 4 November 2022
- as the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem of Rhodes ... system which eventually made it the target of a zealous, impoverished French ...33 KB (5,056 words) - 23:20, 3 March 2023
- 1909 – March 20, 2004) was Queen regnant of the Kingdom of the Netherlands ... evolved as a major participant in the work of global peace-keeping and as ...35 KB (5,252 words) - 06:40, 28 February 2023
- The Kingdom of Denmark is geographically the smallest and southernmost ... the North Sea on the west, and a majority of its land mass lies on a peninsula ...38 KB (5,763 words) - 21:28, 5 March 2024
- The Battle of Waterloo, fought on June 18, 1815, was Napoleon Bonaparte ... armies to oppose him. The principal armies of Napoleon's opponents were ...52 KB (8,210 words) - 01:42, 26 September 2023
- movement that unified different states of the Italian peninsula into ... Ideas of the new kingdom as the modern-day successor of the Roman ...54 KB (8,375 words) - 06:28, 11 March 2024
- The Treaty of Georgievsk ( Георгиевский трактат ... the Russian Empire and the east Georgian kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti on July ...18 KB (2,657 words) - 14:54, 2 May 2023
- The Reign of Terror (June 1793 – July 1794) was a period in the ... were largely atheists, products of the Enlightenment. One of the ...11 KB (1,738 words) - 09:38, 29 July 2022
- November 1683 – October 25, 1760) was King of Great Britain and Ireland, ... He was the last British monarch to have been born outside of Great ...28 KB (4,125 words) - 12:22, 10 November 2022
- The Battle of Verdun was one of the most important battles in World ... The Battle of Verdun resulted in more than a quarter of a million ...14 KB (2,192 words) - 01:41, 26 September 2023
- military leader and a leading member of the Nazi Party. Among many ... Goering was one of the central figures in the Nazi regime that was ...51 KB (7,918 words) - 14:29, 12 February 2022
- in the late nineteenth century as part of the Hohenzollern dynasty's ... tradition of expansion within the European space, Germany's renewed ...17 KB (2,331 words) - 05:35, 5 December 2022
- were best known for publishing collections of folk tales and fairy tales, ... 1849 were brutally crushed by the Kingdom of Prussia, where a constitutional ...12 KB (1,806 words) - 04:36, 22 November 2023
- since the 1701 creation of the Kingdom of Prussia, would come to a head ... William became Prince Regent of the Kingdom of Prussia in 1858. Meanwhile ...102 KB (14,729 words) - 11:39, 3 May 2023
- European exploration of Africa began with the Greeks and Romans, who ... The story of the European exploration of Africa comprises many incidents ...29 KB (4,463 words) - 06:53, 12 September 2023
- and writer, generally regarded as the greatest classicist of the nineteenth ... his diploma in 1837, graduating as a doctor of Roman law. As he could not ...16 KB (2,291 words) - 17:56, 30 April 2023
- and pamphletist, and the preeminent figure of the eighteenth-century French ... reason, despised democracy as the rule of the mob, and believed that ...27 KB (4,100 words) - 21:02, 3 May 2023
- the German colonial empire, consisting of the northeastern part of New ... From the point of view of the local population, the Germans left little ...15 KB (2,339 words) - 22:48, 4 December 2022
- 1945 to February 11, 1945 between the heads of government of the United States ... betrayal" was coined in several of these countries to describe ...13 KB (2,093 words) - 10:05, 22 May 2023
- August 12, 1762 – June 26, 1830) was king of the United Kingdom of Great ... in politics, especially in the matter of Catholic emancipation, though ...44 KB (6,632 words) - 10:49, 13 December 2023
- Edward VII (November 9, 1841 – May 6, 1910) was King of the United ... Before his accession to the throne, Edward held the title of Prince ...38 KB (5,885 words) - 23:54, 12 February 2024
- | s1=Kingdom of Prussia | flag_s1=Flag_of_Prussia_1892-1918.png ... by the neighboring Russian Empire, Kingdom of Prussia, and the Habsburg Monarchy ...62 KB (8,547 words) - 08:32, 24 November 2022
- Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, Count of Mirabeau (March 9, 1749 - April ... A successful orator, he was the leader of the moderate position among ...44 KB (6,937 words) - 18:06, 5 December 2022
- Boris III, Tsar of Bulgaria (January 30, 1894 – August 28, 1943 ... under Soviet control after the collapse of Nazi Germany. The political ...15 KB (2,233 words) - 19:42, 20 November 2023
- quot; But technically, it is a specific form of sovereign state (a political ... It was given impetus by the throwing off of kings (for example, in the ...38 KB (5,803 words) - 04:09, 11 March 2023
- The town is known for the famous Paulist monastery of Jasna Góra ... from the city center. These sites attract millions of pilgrims annually. ...13 KB (1,981 words) - 07:32, 12 January 2024
- or "garland of roses" [http://books.google.com/books?id=eqkFAAAAQAAJ ... practice, which denotes both a set of prayer beads and the devotional ...35 KB (5,735 words) - 21:43, 16 April 2023
- he was posthumously made an Honorary Citizen of the United States; there are ... La Fayette served in the American War of Independence both as a general ...23 KB (3,607 words) - 06:57, 15 December 2022
- [[Image:queenvictoria.jpg|thumb|right|180px|Queen Victoria at the ... May 24, 1819 – January 22, 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great ...55 KB (8,699 words) - 23:51, 17 November 2022
- Cinco de Mayo in Latin America, Spanish for "Fifth of May" ... Mayo has become associated with celebration of Mexican-American culture. ...18 KB (2,441 words) - 22:02, 10 December 2023
- (b. about 1362 – d. June 1, 1434), was a Grand Duke of Lithuania ... .Endre Bojtár, Foreword to the Past: A Cultural History of the Baltic ...51 KB (7,629 words) - 23:06, 1 April 2023
- The War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714) was a major European ... and was marked by the military leadership of notable generals such as the ...29 KB (4,611 words) - 22:54, 3 May 2023
- ) were a series of sweeping military conflicts lasting from 1792 until ... They are divided in two periods: the War of the First Coalition (1792–97 ...65 KB (9,639 words) - 10:56, 11 April 2024
- The Society of the Friends of the Constitution ( Société des amis ... ), renamed the Society of the Jacobins, Friends of Freedom and Equality ( ...43 KB (6,105 words) - 17:02, 30 September 2023
- Ottoman Empire and the Habsburg dynasties of the Austrian Empire, Habsburg ... In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Peace of Westphalia ...37 KB (5,890 words) - 17:06, 23 December 2020
- bishop, a religious refugee, and one of the earliest champions of universal ... who had many practical ideas in the field of education. His numerous publications ...15 KB (2,350 words) - 00:05, 8 January 2024
- especially in those countries whose system of government is based on the ... The parliamentary system was the first form of representative government ...32 KB (4,950 words) - 13:21, 11 March 2023
- plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature, human attributes while ... that they were handed down as an oral form of storytelling, sometimes recorded ...17 KB (2,635 words) - 00:26, 25 March 2024
- Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania, is a country in northern ... 780,000 residents between 1940 and 1954. Of them, an estimated 120,000 ...40 KB (5,565 words) - 07:45, 9 March 2023
- by authoritarian systems. In this aspect of his thinking he was influenced ... Fromm's chief influence remains in the field of humanistic psychology ...15 KB (2,268 words) - 19:26, 13 February 2024
- | birth_place = Breslau, Prussian Silesia, Kingdom of Prussia ... | death_place = Berlin, Province of Brandenburg, Kingdom of Prussia ...45 KB (6,434 words) - 06:42, 15 April 2024
- Österreichs, was the 1938 annexation of Austria into Greater Germany ... The events of March 12, 1938, marked the culmination of historical ...45 KB (6,819 words) - 05:13, 31 July 2023
- The Battle of Austerlitz (also known as the Battle of the Three Emperors ... 1805, Austria and France signed the Treaty of Pressburg, which took the former ...32 KB (5,047 words) - 11:31, 20 September 2023
