- 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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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
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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