and society were carried everywhere by the creation of various puppet states such as the Batavian Republic (the Netherlands as reformed by the victorious French republican armies) and the Ligurian Republic (northern Italy reorganized) and the Confederation of the Rhine (Germany minus Prussia). When...
) The ancient title of emperors of Germany assumed by King William of Prussia when crowned sovereign of the new German empire in 1871. Kaka (n.) A New Zealand parrot of the genus Nestor, especially the brown parrot (Nestor meridionalis). Kakapo (n.) A singular nocturnal parrot (Strigops ...
Queen Victoria was crowned on June 28, 1838. As part of the House of Hanover on her father’s side, she should also have inherited the crown of Hanover in Germany. However, because the Salic Law of Succession prevented a woman from ruling Hanover, the crown instead passed to her uncle, ...
The Franco-Prussian War led directly to German unification, or the formation of the modern nation-state of Germany as we know it today. Answer and Explanation: On July 19, 1870, France, under the rule of Napoleon III, declared war on Prussia. By August 2nd and 3rd, Prussian forces had...
The autonomy was established but this did not solve every problem. With the rise of Nazism in Germany in 1930s, this ideology became popular among Klaipėda's German population as well. This led to acts of terror and subsequent arrests of the local Nazi groups. In fact, this clampdown aga...
A child can attain German citizenship by being born in Germany even if neither parent is German. ... Children who become German citizens in this way must however decide between the age of 18 and 23 whether they want to retain German citizenship or the citizenship of their parents. ...
The year of 1666 was also the year Turkish Jewish Mystic Sabbatai Zevi was proclaimed the Messiah by Nathan of Gaza, a theologian and author who became known as Zevi’s Prophet. Zevi was the founder of the Sabbatean Movement. He and his follower Jacob Frank brought the world Sabbatean-...
Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia Died September 26, 1994 b. 1907 Grandson of Germany's last emperor, third in line to the throne. Worked as a mechanic in a Detroit Ford automobile plant (1929-34) and opposed Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. Read More 3 1 Copy to Share This Entry...
Friedrich Engels was born on Nov. 20, 1820, in Barmen, Prussia, today's Germany. He was the eldest son of a wealthy textile manufacturer. At age 17, Engels traveled to Manchester, England, to learn the family business at the Ermen & Engels cotton plant. ...
The Franco Prussian War was a conflict between the North German Confederation, led by the Kingdom of Prussia, and the Second French Empire under the rule of Napoleon III. Rising tensions between a unifying "Germany" and Imperial France throughout the 1860s helped lead to the conflict which br...