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- 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
- a Carmelite nun, martyr, and saint of the Catholic Church, who died ... Nazi regime reacted by ordering the arrest of all Catholics in Holland of ...16 KB (2,393 words) - 20:38, 8 August 2023
- a German philosopher and the founding father of the Vienna Circle; he was also ... As the founder and leader of the Vienna Circle—arguably the most ...16 KB (2,366 words) - 21:22, 9 November 2022
- sometimes Countess Dohna, was Queen regnant of Sweden from 1632 to 1654. She ... and his wife Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg. As the heiress presumptive ...33 KB (5,367 words) - 21:12, 10 December 2023
- 4, 1847) was a German composer and conductor of the early Romantic period. ... and Beethoven, Mendelssohn composed some of his best works as a teenager ...31 KB (4,782 words) - 17:14, 26 March 2024
- Born in Königsberg, East Prussia, Immanuel Kant (April 22, 1724 – ... the absolute, but speculative certainties of the continental rationalism ...48 KB (7,410 words) - 18:17, 23 January 2024
- Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia (Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova), ( ... – July 17, 1918), was the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II ...45 KB (6,850 words) - 00:19, 3 January 2024
- The Mennonites are a group of Christian Anabaptist denominations named ... who had settled in the German Kingdom of Prussia and then Russia, moved ...44 KB (6,423 words) - 10:32, 10 March 2023
- official use) was an important ruling house of Europe and is most well known ... Vienna, the elegant, artistic, and intellectually creative capital ...24 KB (3,568 words) - 13:21, 24 January 2023
- to mathematics and physics. One of the world's greatest mathematicians ... Lagrange was of French and Italian descent, and was baptized Giuseppe ...29 KB (4,634 words) - 07:15, 10 August 2022
- George I, King of the Hellenes Georgios A' Vasileus ton Ellinon; ... as a constitutional monarch, the reigns of his successors would prove ...30 KB (4,602 words) - 15:49, 10 November 2022
- A Militia is an organization of citizens prepared to provide defense ... Militias, being composed of civilians rather than professional soldiers ...26 KB (3,981 words) - 10:59, 10 March 2023
- The Warsaw Insurrection (otherwise the Warsaw Uprising of 1794; ... Army, it aimed to throw off Russian control of the Polish capital. It began ...40 KB (6,116 words) - 22:10, 18 November 2022
- or private school. Prior to the introduction of compulsory school attendance ... to provide their children with a quality of education they believe is unattainable ...29 KB (4,035 words) - 16:36, 1 March 2023
- de la Légion d'honneur (National Order of the Legion of Honour) is a ... The royal orders of the Kings were all abolished after the French ...27 KB (4,236 words) - 04:42, 5 November 2022
- who is best remembered for her portraits of Marie Antoinette, and for her ... Today she is generally regarded as the most famous woman painter of ...17 KB (2,635 words) - 06:24, 13 June 2023
- France had colonial possessions, in various forms, from the beginning ... Currently, the remnants of this large empire are various islands and ...25 KB (3,770 words) - 17:17, 11 October 2022
- and diplomat. He is considered the founder of Romanticism in French literature ... passions that would become a commonplace of Romanticism: "One inhabits ...16 KB (2,325 words) - 09:37, 11 April 2024
- The Principality of Liechtenstein is a tiny, alpine country in Western ... Liechtenstein is situated in the Upper Rhine valley of the European ...28 KB (4,022 words) - 08:35, 8 March 2023
- known as an early promoter and popularizer of Charles Darwin's evolutionary ... As a professor of comparative anatomy at the University of Jena, Haeckel ...18 KB (2,494 words) - 21:22, 20 March 2024
- Napoleon I Bonaparte, Emperor of the French, King of Italy (August ... Over the course of little more than a decade, the armies of France ...53 KB (8,268 words) - 01:21, 11 November 2022
- is the literal translation of empire)—refers to Germany in the years ... The policies pursued by Nazi Germany, based on the concept of Lebensraum ...65 KB (9,573 words) - 18:36, 30 April 2023
- William III of England (The Hague, November 14, 1650 – Kensington ... Born a member of the House of Orange-Nassau, William III won the English ...49 KB (7,679 words) - 11:02, 9 May 2023
- Riga the capital city of Latvia, is situated on the Baltic Sea coast ... The Historic Centre of Riga has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage ...31 KB (4,622 words) - 21:06, 16 April 2023
- 899) is often considered to be the founder of the English nation. As king ... Danes, after defeating them at the Battle of Edington. Realizing that it ...34 KB (5,332 words) - 20:42, 20 July 2023
- (January 31, 1938 - ) reigned as Queen of the Netherlands from 1980 until ... so Beatrix followed in the footsteps of four remarkable women. The ...28 KB (3,868 words) - 10:18, 26 September 2023
- and is known as the "Father of Railways." The Victorians ... west of Newcastle upon Tyne. He was the second child of Robert and ...23 KB (3,591 words) - 00:40, 14 November 2022
- The House of Romanov (Рома́нов, pronounced [rʌˈmanəf] ) was the second and last imperial dynasty of Russia, which ruled ...20 KB (3,088 words) - 04:57, 16 December 2022
- The Battle of Blenheim (referred to in some countries as the Second ... A combination of deception and brilliant administration—designed ...50 KB (7,770 words) - 11:32, 20 September 2023
- Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, a country in ... federal republic, historically consisting of several sovereign states with ...115 KB (16,736 words) - 17:52, 14 December 2023
- Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central ... an event that coincided with the baptism of Duke Mieszko I. Poland became ...71 KB (10,329 words) - 17:32, 2 January 2024
- - January 9, 1927) was a British-born author of books on political philosophy ... who died in 1927 prior to the rise to power of Hitler and the Nazis, was not ...19 KB (2,874 words) - 01:22, 4 February 2023
- Nicholas II of Russia (May 18, 1868 – July 17, 1918) ( ... , Nikolay II) was the last tsar of Russia, the King of Poland, and ...28 KB (4,350 words) - 23:31, 14 November 2022
- that name. In reality, the movement consists of several distinct organizations ... itself contributed towards the development of human consciousness of a world ...66 KB (10,055 words) - 01:47, 8 December 2022
- as a political economist, and an organizer of the International Workingmen ... Province of the Lower Rhine, in the Kingdom of Prussia. His father, Heinrich ...40 KB (6,034 words) - 17:41, 31 March 2023
- ruled empires that dominated large portions of Europe and the Asia-Pacific ... On September 18, 1931, Manchuria was an object of Japanese invasion ...31 KB (4,510 words) - 07:22, 23 August 2023
- He is best remembered for his direction of British foreign policy through ... Some of his aggressive actions, now termed liberal interventionist ...66 KB (10,174 words) - 15:23, 25 January 2023
- The Battle of Trafalgar (/trə'fælɡər/, formerly /træfəl ... A Royal Navy fleet of 27 ships of the line destroyed an allied French ...36 KB (5,789 words) - 01:40, 26 September 2023
- Jews have lived in Germany for over 1700 years, through both periods ... In the German kingdom of Prussia, also, the government modified materially ...56 KB (8,438 words) - 08:48, 3 April 2024
- actions against and amongst the followers of Jan Hus in Bohemia in the period ... Critics of religion point to the Hussite Wars and to others conflicts ...28 KB (4,454 words) - 21:23, 9 February 2024
- to win independence from the United Kingdom by force of arms. It was ... stepping-stone in the eventual creation of the Irish Republic. The Irish ...29 KB (4,554 words) - 17:17, 11 October 2020
- ) is renowned as a monument of Christianity, of Gothic architecture ... Cologne Cathedral is one of the world's largest churches, being ...24 KB (3,597 words) - 22:36, 7 January 2024
- Heinrich Luitpold Himmler (October 7, 1900 – May 23, 1945) was ... He rose to power on the foundation of his absolute loyalty to Hitler ...23 KB (3,487 words) - 19:53, 9 May 2024
- a well-known Russian revolutionary, and one of the leading figures of nineteenth ... the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the Kingdom of Prussia. ...43 KB (6,370 words) - 17:48, 9 November 2022
- gun-armed and most heavily armored classes of warships built from the mid ... The origin of the battleship can be found in the Great ships built ...59 KB (9,033 words) - 22:12, 16 January 2022
- ), officially the Republic of Austria ( Republik Österreich ... The origins of modern Austria date back to the ninth century, when ...90 KB (13,119 words) - 17:56, 22 August 2023
- in Northern Europe. Considered an arm of the Atlantic Ocean, it is connected ... Similar to the Black Sea, the Baltic is one of the most brackish bodies ...25 KB (3,903 words) - 03:20, 17 September 2023
- It stressed strong emotion as a source of aesthetic experience, placing ... Romanticism arose as a reaction against the excessive rationalism ...25 KB (3,674 words) - 04:59, 16 December 2022
- Germany from 1919 to 1933. This period of German history is often known ... The phrase Weimar Republic is an invention of historians, and was not used ...56 KB (8,410 words) - 23:27, 3 May 2023
- 1775–1783), also known as the American War of Independence, was the military ... and occupy coastal cities, but control of the countryside and most of ...40 KB (5,862 words) - 06:46, 25 July 2023
- broke out in 1789. She spent the first years of the revolution in Lyon, where ... When her husband unexpectedly became Minister of the Interior in 1792 ...54 KB (8,542 words) - 21:56, 28 November 2022
- all wars. Some question the appropriateness of the term “world war” because ... The legacy of the war, in many respects, was World War II, which was ...72 KB (11,195 words) - 13:50, 20 May 2023
- The French Revolution (1789–1799) was a period of ideological, political ... popular uprising against the absolute power of the king and against the privileges ...68 KB (10,394 words) - 10:55, 11 April 2024
- Dresden, the capital city of the German Federal Free State of Saxony ... royal residence for the Electors and Kings of Saxony, who furnished the city ...25 KB (3,605 words) - 17:41, 30 January 2024
- William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham PC (November 15, 1708 – May 1 ... . The major American city of Pittsburgh was named for him. Also, Pittsylvania ...49 KB (8,091 words) - 14:59, 10 October 2020
- English name for the former Federal Republic of Germany, from its founding ... With an area of 95,976 square miles (248,577 square kilometers), or ...36 KB (5,407 words) - 17:16, 4 May 2023
- von Braun (March 23, 1912 - June 16, 1977) was one of the leading ... Province of Posen, in the German Kingdom of Prussia. He was the second ...47 KB (7,340 words) - 17:15, 4 May 2023
- 1958), reigned as the 260th Pope, the head of the Roman Catholic Church, ... Pius is one of the few popes in recent history to exercise his right ...51 KB (7,678 words) - 20:42, 9 April 2023
- an agreement officially entitled the Treaty of Non-aggression between Germany ... In addition to stipulations of non-aggression, the treaty included ...51 KB (7,700 words) - 13:06, 10 March 2023
- The League of Nations was an international organization founded as ... After a number of notable successes and some early failures in the ...54 KB (8,084 words) - 06:07, 6 March 2023
- Colonialism is the extension of a nation's sovereignty over territory ... Negatively, attitudes of racial, cultural, religious and civilization ...36 KB (5,415 words) - 07:40, 14 January 2023
- The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (commonly ... The United Kingdom is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional ...123 KB (18,096 words) - 11:41, 3 May 2023
- At the end of the Second World War, a ravaged Japan was occupied by ... efforts in the Korean War, as well as out of a larger overall concern over ...33 KB (4,957 words) - 10:14, 11 March 2023
- At the Fifteenth Party Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet ... To oversee the radical transformation of the Soviet Union, the party ...33 KB (4,974 words) - 12:47, 1 February 2024
- . A large part of the European drainage basin empties into the North ... Much of the sea's coastal features are the result of glacial ...64 KB (9,669 words) - 10:06, 11 March 2023
- John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (June 6, 1650 – June 27, 1722) ... was an English soldier and statesman whose career spanned the reigns ...54 KB (8,414 words) - 17:21, 16 December 2022
- Philosophy of history or historiosophy is an area of philosophy concerning ... A philosophy of history begins with a few basic assumptions. First ...30 KB (4,545 words) - 04:16, 24 November 2022
- بهاء الله : meaning "Glory of God") (November 12, 1817 ... Mírzá `Alí-Muhammad, who took the title of the Báb (Arabic; meaning ...32 KB (5,101 words) - 05:47, 26 August 2023
- in Nazi Germany who opposed the regime of Adolf Hitler between 1933 and ... Resistance. The German resistance consisted of small and usually isolated ...78 KB (12,369 words) - 07:39, 24 January 2023
- The Kingdom of Belgium is a country in northwest Europe bordered by ... Flanders in the north, with 58 percent of the population, and the French ...76 KB (10,944 words) - 08:52, 27 September 2023
- Nicolaus Copernicus (February 19, 1473 – May 24, 1543) was one of ... It has been equated it with the initiation of "the scientific revolution ...33 KB (5,163 words) - 02:58, 8 January 2024
- them). His compositions, particularly those of his later period, are notable ... At the end of 1822, at the age of nine, he was enrolled in the Kreuzschule ...53 KB (8,225 words) - 21:05, 16 April 2023
- The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg ( Groussherzogtum Lëtzebuerg ... Germanic Europe, borrowing customs from each of the distinct traditions. Although ...46 KB (6,759 words) - 03:09, 5 November 2022
- The Scramble for Africa (or the Race for Africa) was the proliferation ... The latter half of the nineteenth century saw the transition from ...50 KB (7,409 words) - 17:29, 25 January 2023
- The Glorious First of June (also known as the Third Battle of Ushant ... was the first and largest fleet action of the naval conflict between ...60 KB (9,430 words) - 18:53, 31 December 2023
- Southern European country with a population of approximately 60 million. It ... and France. The independent countries of San Marino and the Vatican ...48 KB (6,888 words) - 16:16, 22 September 2021
- Grodno, Gomel, Mogilev and Vitebsk. A third of the country is forested, and ... The history of Belarus is a story of domination by foreign powers ...48 KB (6,863 words) - 08:51, 27 September 2023
- Christianity became the official religion of Europe and so suffered from ... The dominant form of anti-Semitism from the nineteenth century until ...52 KB (8,069 words) - 12:28, 14 October 2023
- Revolution, he was a vigorous defender of the sans-culottes, a radical ... After the fall of the Girondins, in which Marat played an important ...49 KB (7,367 words) - 18:14, 1 December 2022
- The Battle of the Bulge, officially called the Battle of the Ardennes ... silence. Even Ultra (the allies reading of secret German radio messages ...55 KB (8,725 words) - 01:44, 26 September 2023
- staff and equipment. The best-known type of hospital is the general hospital ... In accordance with the original meaning of the word, hospitals were ...34 KB (4,867 words) - 16:01, 25 April 2020
- on a person. It can be used as a means of intimidation, as a deterrent ... Torture is almost universally considered to be a violation of human ...35 KB (5,314 words) - 04:41, 1 May 2023
- established in 1945 for the purpose of securing world peace. It replaced ... As an organization of governments designed to prevent war between ...64 KB (9,547 words) - 11:41, 3 May 2023
- The Middle Ages form the middle period in a traditional division of ... With the demise of centralized Roman government in the West, trade ...60 KB (9,144 words) - 10:41, 10 March 2023
- Hungary, officially in English the Republic of Hungary, is a landlocked ... After a Celtic and a Roman period, the foundation of Hungary was laid ...107 KB (15,967 words) - 21:14, 9 February 2024
- for educational reform, and President of the Board of Trade. He later ... Several monuments honor his legacy in the City of Birmingham. Throughout ...63 KB (9,535 words) - 21:17, 6 May 2024
- The Insurrection of August 10, 1792 was a defining event of the French ... Conflict between King Louis XVI of France and the country's new ...38 KB (5,991 words) - 14:42, 31 August 2022
- In World War II, the Battle of France, also known as the Fall of France ... as a preliminary step to the conquest of territory in the East, thus ...78 KB (12,110 words) - 11:42, 20 September 2023
- The Protocols of the Elders of Zion ( "Протоколы сионских ... Scholars generally agree that the Okhrana, the secret police of the ...66 KB (9,730 words) - 23:42, 22 October 2023
- The date commonly given for the start of the war is September 1, 1939 ... The Allies were initially made up of Poland, the British Empire, France ...70 KB (11,168 words) - 13:51, 20 May 2023
- 1919 – March 1921) was an armed conflict of Soviet Russia and Soviet Ukraine ... Blue (north-west) were taken by Kingdom of Prussia, green (south) by Austria ...77 KB (11,326 words) - 23:09, 8 October 2023
- and scientist who served as the chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021, ... Safety from 1994. As the first female leader of the world's third largest ...49 KB (6,775 words) - 18:05, 27 July 2023
- derived liquid mixture consisting mostly of aliphatic hydrocarbons, enhanced ... Gasoline is a mixture of hydrocarbons, although some may contain significant ...47 KB (6,891 words) - 04:38, 18 April 2024
- (The "Hexagon") because of the geometric shape of its ... republic with more than 200 years of democratic traditions, and ...109 KB (16,195 words) - 06:41, 1 April 2024
- meaning “to serve”; a samurai is the retainer of a lord. spiritual ethos. Almost all the key leaders of the Meiji Restoration were ...49 KB (7,556 words) - 03:06, 23 December 2022
- Marxism, in a narrow sense, refers to the thoughts and theories of ... thoughts, theories, and movements of Marxism have emerged since ...86 KB (12,847 words) - 15:58, 7 November 2022
- Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe, formerly a part of the Soviet ... From at least the ninth century, the territory of present-day Ukraine ...72 KB (10,102 words) - 01:29, 3 May 2023
- Civil War. While not necessarily a supporter of the abolition of slavery, his ... McClellan's Peninsula Campaign of 1862 ended in failure, retreating ...67 KB (10,321 words) - 07:02, 18 April 2024
- Adolf Hitler (April 20, 1889 – April 30, 1945) was Chancellor of ... imposed by France and England at the Treaty of Versailles. The economic disaster ...75 KB (11,428 words) - 06:03, 15 June 2023
- The September Massacres were a series of killings of prisoners in ... massacres began around 2:30 pm in the middle of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Within ...69 KB (9,949 words) - 09:52, 26 January 2023
