Collection of facts about the Spanish Empire

This post is a collection of facts about the Spanish Empire (1492-1976). There are 14 facts listed below. Source: Wikipedia

• Christopher Columbus arrived in the Americas (1492)
• Treaty of Tordesillas divided the world into Spanish and Portuguese claims (1494)
• Conquest of the Aztec Empire (1519-1521)
• Magellan circumnavigated the Earth (1519-1522)
• Conquest of the Maya (1524-1697)
• Conquest of the Inca Empire (1532-1572)
• Spanish East Indies (Philippines) established in 1565
• Portugal personal union with Spain forming the Iberian Union in 1580
• Portugal regained independence in 1640
• Occupied Louisiana Territory 1762-1803
• South American countries gained independence from Spain: Argentina (1810), Gran Colombia (1810), Chile (1810), Paraguay (1811), Uruguay (1815), Peru (1821), Panama (1821), Mexico (1821)
• Central American countries gained independence from Spain by 1823: Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica
• Lost Cuba, Puerto Rico, Philippines in Spanish-American War (1898)
• Withdrew from Spanish Sahara in 1976

Collection of facts about the Empire of Japan

This post is a collection of facts about the Empire of Japan (1868-1947). There are 20 facts listed below. Source: Wikipedia

• Formed during the Meiji Restoration in 1868
• Meiji ruled as emperor 1868-1912
• Boshin War (1868-1869)
• First Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895)
• Invaded Taiwan in 1895
• Itō Hirobumi served as first prime minister in 1885
• Joined international coalition during the Boxer Rebellion (1900)
• Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)
• Occupied Korea 1910-1945
• Taishō ruled as emperor 1912-1926
• Invaded Siberia 1918-1922
• Hirohito ruled as emperor 1926-1947
• Invaded Manchuria in 1931
• Second Sino-Japanese War began in 1937
• Tripartite Pact with Germany and Italy (1940)
• Fought in World War II (1941-1945)
• Attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941
• Atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (August 1945)
• Surrendered on September 2nd, 1945
• Ended with the Constitution of Japan in 1947

Collection of facts about the German Empire

This post is a collection facts about the German Empire (1871-1918). There are 11 facts listed below. Source: Wikipedia

• Unification of Germany (1871)
• 25 states (4 kingdoms, 6 grand duchies, 5 duchies, 7 principalities, 3 free Hanseatic cities)
• Otto von Bismarck was the first chancellor 1871-1890
• Wilhelm I was emperor 1871-1888
• Formed alliance with Austria-Hungary in 1879
• Occupied territories in Africa and Asia
• Wilhelm II was emperor 1888-1918
• Fought in World War I (1914-1918)
• Expanded east in Treaty of Brest-Litovsk in March 1918
• Ended during the November 1918 Revolution
• Treaty of Versailles imposed reparation costs on Germany
• Succeeded by the Weimar Republic

Collection of facts about the Empire of Brazil

This post is a collection of facts about the Empire of Brazil (1822-1889). There are 12 facts listed below. Source: Wikipedia

• Gained independence from Portugal in 1822
• Pedro I ruled 1822-1831
• Cisplatine War (1825-1828)
• Cisplatina (Uruguay) gained independence in 1828
• Pedro II ruled 1831-1889
• Ragamuffin War (1835-1845)
• Platine War (1851-1852)
• Uruguayan War (1864-1865)
• Paraguayan War (1864-1870)
• Slavery abolished in 1888
• Pedro II overthrown by coup d'état in 1889
• Succeeded by the First Brazilian Republic

Collection of facts about the Tsardom of Russia

This post is a collection of facts about the Tsardom of Russia (1547-1721). There are 11 facts listed below.

• Preceded by the Grand Principality of Moscow
• Ivan IV was the first tsar in 1547
• Livonian War (1558-1583)
• Russian conquest of Siberia (1580-1778)
• Rurik dynasty ended in 1598
• Time of Troubles (1598-1613)
• Romanov dynasty began in 1613
• Polish-Russian War (1609-1618)
• Russo-Polish War (1654-1667)
• Schism of the Russian Church (1660s - 1690s)
• Succeeded by the Russian Empire in 1721

Sources

Wikipedia: Tsardom of Russia, Polish-Russian War, Schism of the Russian Church, Russian conquest of Siberia

Collection of facts about the Kingdom of France

This post is a collection of facts about the Kingdom of France (843 - 1848 AD). There are 20 facts listed below.

• Preceded by the Carolingian Empire
• Began as Western Francia (part of the Carolingian Empire) in 843 AD
• Hugh Capet became king founded the Capetian dynasty in 987 AD
• Capetian dynasty and cadet branches (Valois, Bourbon) ruled until 1792
• Rivalry with the Angevin Empire and House of Plantagenet
• Edward III of England claimed throne of Kingdom of France
• Hundred Years' War (1337-1453)
• Italian Wars (1494-1559)
• Wars of Religion (1562-1598)
• Thirty Years' War (1618-1648)
• Louis XIV ruled 1643-1715
• War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748)
• Seven Years' War (1756-1763)
• French Revolution began in 1789
• Monarchy abolished in 1792
• Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815)
• Monarchy restored in 1814 (Bourbon Restoration)
• Napoleon defeated at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815
• July Revolution in 1830
• Ended with the French Revolution of 1848

Sources

Wikipedia: Kingdom of France, Hundred Years' War, Napoleonic Wars

Collection of facts about the Kingdom of England

This post is a collection of facts about the Kingdom of England (927 - 1707 AD). There are 17 facts listed below.

• Preceded by Anglo-Saxon kingdoms (Heptarchy): East Anglia, Mercia, Northumbria, Kent, Essex, Sussex, Wessex
• Æthelstan united the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in 927
• Joined the North Sea Empire (personal union with Denmark, Norway) in 1016
• Invaded by Normans in 1066
• Norman/Angevin rule (1066-1216)
• Magna Carta (1215)
• Plantagent rule (1216-1485)
• Wales conquered in 1284
• Hundred Years' War (1337-1453)
• English Reformation (16th century)
• Tudor period (1485-1603)
• England, Scotland and Ireland form personal union in 1603
• Stuart period (1603-1714)
• English Civil War (1642-1651)
• Interregnum (1649-1660)
• Glorious Revolution (1688)
• Succeeded by Great Britain (England and Scotland unite) in 1707

Sources

Wikipedia: Kingdom of England, English Civil War