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Vor 3 Tagen · Frederick II ( German: Friedrich II.; 24 January 1712 – 17 August 1786) was the monarch of Prussia from 1740 until 1786. He was the last Hohenzollern monarch titled King in Prussia, declaring himself King of Prussia after annexing Royal Prussia from the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1772. His most significant accomplishments include his ...
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Frederick William II (German: Friedrich Wilhelm II.; 25...
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Vor 3 Tagen · Battle of Trafalgar, (October 21, 1805), naval engagement of the Napoleonic Wars, which established British naval supremacy for more than 100 years; it was fought west of Cape Trafalgar, Spain, between Cádiz and the Strait of Gibraltar.
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- The Battle of Trafalgar was a naval engagement fought between British and French-led forces on October 21, 1805, during the Napoleonic Wars. It too...
- Admiral Horatio Nelson led the British fleet and Admiral Pierre de Villeneuve led a fleet of French and Spanish ships at the Battle of Trafalgar.
- About 1,500 British seamen were killed or wounded in the Battle of Trafalgar, and Admiral Horatio Nelson was mortally wounded. In the Spanish and F...
- The Battle of Trafalgar was important because it established British naval supremacy for more than 100 years. The battle also shattered Napoleon’s...
Vor einem Tag · v. t. e. The Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition ( Spanish: Tribunal del Santo Oficio de la Inquisición ), commonly known as the Spanish Inquisition ( Inquisición española ), was established in 1478 by the Catholic Monarchs, King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile.
Vor 2 Tagen · Learn more about how Elizabeth II became queen of the United Kingdom. Elizabeth II (born April 21, 1926, London, England—died September 8, 2022, Balmoral Castle, Aberdeenshire, Scotland) was the queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from February 6, 1952, to September 8, 2022.
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Vor 3 Tagen · Napoleon I, also called Napoléon Bonaparte, was a French military general and statesman. Napoleon played a key role in the French Revolution (1789–99), served as first consul of France (1799–1804), and was the first emperor of France (1804–14/15).
- Napoleon first seized political power in a coup d’état in 1799. The coup resulted in the replacement of the extant governing body—a five-member Dir...
- Napoleon served as first consul of France from 1799 to 1804. In that time, Napoleon reformed the French educational system, developed a civil code...
- After a series of military defeats in 1812–13, Napoleon was forced to abdicate the French throne on April 6, 1814. Napoleon returned to power in ea...
- No! “Le Petit Caporal” wasn’t petite—at least not by 19th-century standards. The estimated average height of a French man in 1820 was 5 feet 4 inch...
Vor 3 Tagen · Sophia was the granddaughter of James VI and I through his daughter Elizabeth, who was the sister of Anne's grandfather Charles I. Over 50 Catholics with stronger claims were excluded from the line of succession. Anne's father died in September 1701. His widow, the former queen, wrote to Anne to inform her that her father forgave her and to ...
Vor 2 Tagen · May 15, 2024. Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker, who raised eyebrows for suggesting women should be homemakers, was raised by a mom who’s a physicist. His mom, Elizabeth Butker, has been ...
