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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 (5,244 words) - 09:51, 12 May 2024
- 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
