Saturday, July 19, 2025

Collection of facts about Austria-Hungary

This post is a collection of facts about Austria-Hungary (1867-1918). There are 8 facts listed below. Source: Wikipedia

  • Austro-Prussian War dissolves German Confederation (1866)
  • Austrian Empire and Kingdom of Hungary unite (1867)
  • Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia joins (1868)
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina joins (1878)
  • Bosnian crisis (1908)
  • World War I (1914-1918)
  • Hungarian Parliament votes to terminate union with Austria (1918)
  • Succeeded by Austrian Republic, Kingdom of Hungary, Czechoslovak Republic, Polish Republic and Kingdom of Yugoslavia
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Friday, July 18, 2025

Collection of facts about the Austrian Empire

This post is a collection of facts about the Austrian Empire (1804-1867). There are 8 facts listed below.

  • Established by House of Habsburg (1804)
  • Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815)
  • Holy Roman Empire dissolved (1806)
  • Congress of Vienna (1815)
  • Revolutions of 1848 (1848-1849)
  • Second Italian War of Independence (1859)
  • Austro-Prussian War (1866)
  • Established Austria-Hungary with Kingdom of Hungary (1867)

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Collection of facts about the Papal States

This post is a collection of facts about the Papal States (756 - 1870 AD). There are 11 facts listed below.

  • Capital: Rome
  • Pepin the Short donates territory to Pope Stephen II (756 AD)
  • Treaty of Venice (1177)
  • Avignon Papacy (1309-1376)
  • Protestant Reformation (16th century)
  • First Roman Republic occupation (1798-1799)
  • Unification of Italy (1848-1871)
  • Second Roman Republic occupation (1849-1850)
  • Capture of Rome (1870)
  • Annexed by Kingdom of Italy (1870)
  • Vatican City established (1929)

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Collection of facts about the Republic of Venice

This post is a collection of facts about the Republic of Venice (697 - 1797 AD). There are 13 facts listed below.

  • Occupied northeastern Italy, Istria, Dalmatia, Crete, Cyprus, Peloponnese, Montenegro, Albania
  • Established as a province of the Byzantine Empire (697 AD)
  • Croatian-Venetian wars (7th century - 15th century)
  • Declares independence in Pactum Lotharii (840 AD)
  • Venetian Crusade (1122-1124)
  • Sack of Constantinople (1204)
  • Venetian-Genoese wars (1256-1381)
  • Ottoman-Venetian wars (1396-1718)
  • Wars in Lombardy (1423-1454)
  • War of the League of Cambrai (1508-1516)
  • Morean War (1684-1699)
  • Lost Morea in Treaty of Passarowitz (1718)
  • Partitioned to France and Austria (1797)

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Collection of facts about the Republic of Genoa

This post is a collection of facts about the Republic of Genoa (1099-1815). There are 13 facts listed below.

  • Based in northwestern Italy
  • Colonies included Corsica, Monaco, Crimea, Lesbos, Chios, Tripoli, Sardinia, Antioch, Egypt, Acre
  • First Crusade (1096-1099)
  • Siege of Antioch (1098)
  • Siege of Jerusalem (1099)
  • Venetian-Genoese wars (1256-1381)
  • Treaty of Nymphaeum with Empire of Nicaea (1261)
  • Fought Republic of Pisa at Battle of Meloria (1284)
  • Bank of Saint George established (1407)
  • War of the Reunions (1683-1684)
  • Conquered by Napoleon and replaced by Ligurian Republic (1797)
  • Regained sovereignty (1814)
  • Annexed by Kingdom of Sardinia (1815)

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Thursday, July 17, 2025

Basic timeline of England names

This post is a basic timeline of England names. There are 4 names listed below chronologically.

  • Kingdom of England (10th century - 1707)
  • Kingdom of Great Britain (1707-1800)
  • United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801-1922)
  • United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (1922 - now)

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Collection of facts about Prussia

This post is a collection of facts about Prussia (1525-1947). There are 36 facts listed below.

  • Based in North European Plain
  • Capitals: Königsberg (1525-1701) and Berlin (1701-1947)
  • Old Prussians conquered by Teutonic Knights (12th century)
  • Prussian Confederation formed (1440)
  • Thirteen Years' War (1454-1466)
  • Second Peace of Thorn (1466)
  • Royal Prussia province of Kingdom of Poland (1466-1569)
  • Duchy of Prussia (1525-1701)
  • Brandenburg-Prussia union (1618-1701)
  • Thirty Years' War (1618-1648)
  • Second Northern War (1654-1660)
  • Franco-Dutch War (1671-1678)
  • Great Northern War (1700-1721)
  • Kingdom of Prussia (1701-1918)
  • Frederick the Great (r. 1740-1786)
  • War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748)
  • Silesian Wars (1740-1763)
  • Seven Years' War (1756-1763)
  • Partitions of Poland (1772-1795)
  • War of the Bavarian Succession (1778-1779)
  • French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802)
  • Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815)
  • German Confederation (1815-1866)
  • German Revolutions of 1848-1849
  • First War of Schleswig (1848-1851)
  • Second War of Schleswig (1864)
  • Austro-Prussian War (1866)
  • North German Confederation (1867-1871)
  • Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871)
  • German Empire (1871-1918)
  • World War I (1914-1918)
  • Free State of Prussia (1918-1947)
  • Weimar Republic (1918-1933)
  • Law on the Reconstruction of the Reich (1934)
  • World War II (1939-1945)
  • Prussia abolished by Allied Control Council (1947)

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