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Hace 1 día · Louis XIV (Louis-Dieudonné; 5 September 1638 – 1 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great ( Louis le Grand) or the Sun King ( le Roi Soleil ), was King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715. His verified reign of 72 years and 110 days is the longest of any sovereign. [1] [a] Although Louis XIV's France was emblematic of the Age ...
Hace 2 días · 1970 – Coup in Syria, led by Hafez al-Assad. 1971 – Military coup in Uganda led by Idi Amin. 1973 – Coup d'état in Chile on September 11th, Salvador Allende was overthrown and killed in a military attack on the presidential palace. Augusto Pinochet takes power backed by the military junta.
Hace 2 días · The history of the Netherlands extends back long before the founding of the modern Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1815 after the defeat of Napoleon. For thousands of years, people have been living together around the river deltas of this section of the North Sea coast. Records begin with the four centuries during which the region formed a ...
Hace 5 días · Sir Henry Morgan (born 1635, Llanrhymney, Glamorgan [now in Cardiff], Wales—died August 25, 1688, probably Lawrencefield, Jamaica) was a Welsh buccaneer, most famous of the adventurers who plundered Spain’s Caribbean colonies during the late 17th century.
Hace 5 días · Palace of Versailles, Versailles, France, designated a World Heritage site in 1979. Under the guidance of Louis XIV (reigned 1643–1715), the residence was transformed (1661–1710) into an immense and extravagant complex surrounded by stylized French and English gardens. Every detail of its construction was intended to glorify the king.
Hace 4 días · After 1689 many qualified nonconformists regarded the educational services that they provided through private academies that had emerged in the 1670s as legal. Their establishment counterparts, by contrast, insisted that these educational services were outside of the Toleration Act’s provisions and pushed for the men who conducted them to be prosecuted.
Hace 15 horas · Columbia, University of South Carolina Press, 2019, ISBN: 9781643360546; 212pp.; Price: £37.50. John J. Navin offers a new account of the first half century of settlement in the colony of South Carolina, which he characterizes as The Grim Years. By the mid-18th century South Carolina would become the wealthiest British colony in mainland North ...
