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Hace 1 día · In 1707, the kingdoms of England and Scotland were merged to create the Kingdom of Great Britain, and in 1801, the Kingdom of Ireland joined to create the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Beginning in the 16th century, the monarch was the nominal head of what came to be the vast British Empire , which covered a quarter of the world's land area at its greatest extent in 1921.
Hace 5 días · Great Lives is a BBC Radio 4 biography series, produced in Bristol. It has been presented by Joan Bakewell , Humphrey Carpenter , Francine Stock and currently (since April 2006) Matthew Parris . A distinguished guest is asked to nominate the person they feel is truly deserving of the title "Great Life".
Hace 3 días · The House of Hohenzollern (/ ˌ h oʊ ə n ˈ z ɒ l ər n /, US also /-n ˈ z ɔː l-,-n t ˈ s ɔː l-/; German: Haus Hohenzollern, pronounced [ˌhaʊs hoːənˈtsɔlɐn] ⓘ; Romanian: Casa de Hohenzollern) is a formerly royal (and from 1871 to 1918, imperial) German dynasty whose members were variously princes, electors, kings and emperors of Hohenzollern, Brandenburg, Prussia, the German ...
Hace 4 días · Marie Louise 1791–1847 Duchess of Parma: Ferdinand I 1793–1875 President of the German Confederation Emperor of Austria r. 1835–1848: Maria Anna of Savoy 1803–1884: Maria Anna of Austria 1804–1858: Clementina of Austria 1798–1881: Leopold 1790–1851 Prince of Salerno: Maximilian I Joseph 1756–1825 King of Bavaria: Caroline of ...
Hace 3 días · Louis Philippe I (6 October 1773 – 26 August 1850), nicknamed the Citizen King, was King of the French from 1830 to 1848, and the penultimate monarch of France. As Louis Philippe, Duke of Chartres, he distinguished himself commanding troops during the Revolutionary Wars and was promoted to lieutenant general by the age of nineteen, but he ...
Hace 1 día · e. Charlemagne [b] ( / ˈʃɑːrləmeɪn, ˌʃɑːrləˈmeɪn / SHAR-lə-mayn, -MAYN; 2 April 748 [a] – 28 January 814) was King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and Emperor of what is now known as the Carolingian Empire from 800, holding these titles until his death in 814. He united most of Western and Central ...
Hace 1 día · Great Britain is part of the British Isles, together with the island of Ireland as well as smaller islands and island groups. The term Great Britain, which this article uses as a geographic designation , is often used as a synonym for the United Kingdom , a political entity that includes England, Northern Ireland , Scotland, and Wales and that was once part of the British Empire .
