However, in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 Bavaria sided with Prussia against France, and after the Prussian victory it became part of the new German Empire led by Prussia. Though Bavaria retained a degree of autonomy on some matters within the new German Reich, Ludwig increasingly withdrew ...
In 1850, Robert Pate, a former British Army officer, attacked the queen with a cane. He hit her once before being subdued by the crowd. He was sentenced to seven years in a Tasmanian penal colony. The final attempt on Queen Victoria’s life came in 1882.Roderick Maclean fired his pistol...
When she came back, she said that the group had died due to their own mistakes and there was no material for the article. It is possible that the publication was banned. For a very short time she was married to an architect, there were no children. After the publication of the ...
After the defeat of Napoleon and the liberation of Prussia in 1814, citizens went back to their own lives, there was no sense of national pride or German identity. Johann Gottlieb Fichte came up with the idea of Volkschule, a mandatory 9-year educational system provided by the government to...
The Queen of Spain wasn't joking around when it came to her royal wedding tiara, which has crowned quite the resumé of distinguished wearers. Letizia donned the Prussian tiara, a stunning headpiece designed by German jeweler Koch for Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia—a gift from her father...
“The moral judgment never came up,” Racine told a press conference last year. “We neither approve nor condemn his behavior.” Curator Le Bitouzé feels his scurrilous reputation is undeserved, or at least one-dimensional. “Yes, he quite often behaved badly with women, but at other ...
By the spring of 1814, Europe had had enough of thediminutive Corsican. The armies of Russia, Britain, Prussia and Austria joined forces and defeated Napoleon throwing him into exile on the tiny Mediterranean island of Elba [source:History]. ...
“Finally, already when we were camped at Tsarevo-Zaimishche, there came news of the arrival of Kutuzov, a veteran of the Russian army, who had been appointed commander-in-chief. Universal revelry ensued, everything came to life again, hope came to life again: the whole army viewed this...
Wendy Jones, from South Wales, picked up the plate only as an afterthought before she went to get some books valued. But the programme's expert, John Axford, instantly recognised the dish as part of a royal dinner service commissioned for Frederick the Great of Prussia, and valued it at ...
Who died in the Glorious Revolution? Who led Bloody Sunday? Who created oligarchy? Who led the Roundheads in the English Civil War? Who was king during the Jacobite Rebellion? Which came first: monarchy or oligarchy? Who led the Third Estate in the French Revolution?