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Hace 14 horas · Frederick II ( German: Friedrich II.; 24 January 1712 – 17 August 1786) was the monarch of Prussia from 1740 until 1786. He was the last Hohenzollern monarch titled King in Prussia, declaring himself King of Prussia after annexing Royal Prussia from the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1772. His most significant accomplishments include his ...
Hace 1 día · Also Duke of Prussia. In 1701 became the first King in Prussia, as Frederick I. Electorate and Margraviate of Brandenburg annexed to Prussia: George Frederick II: 3 May 1678: 1692–1703: 29 March 1703: Margraviate of Brandenburg-Ansbach: Unmarried: Died without descendants; he was succeeded by his brother. Philip William: 19 May 1669: 1692 ...
Hace 2 días · Following the revolution of November 1918, Prince von Wedel retired to his wife’s estate, Stora Sundby Castle in Sweden, in Eskilstuna, south of Stockholm. In the 1890s Count Karl had married a Swedish noblewoman, Stephanie Hamilton of Hageby, a woman known as one of Europe’s grand dames, famous for her charities.
Hace 4 días · Wilhelm II [b] (Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert; 27 January 1859 – 4 June 1941) was the last German Emperor and King of Prussia from 1888 until his abdication in 1918, which marked the end of the German Empire and the House of Hohenzollern 's 300-year reign in Prussia and 500-year reign in Brandenburg . Born during the reign of his granduncle ...
Hace 4 días · Berlin, capital and chief urban center of Germany. The city lies at the heart of the North German Plain, athwart an east-west commercial and geographic axis that helped make it the capital of the kingdom of Prussia and then, from 1871, of a unified Germany.
Hace 14 horas · The Congress of Vienna in 1814–1815 has had a bad press both among many writers of the time and among many historians since. The gathering of monarchs, princes and aristocrats, who apparently danced and sipped champagne as they drew up new national frontiers, swapped peoples around and reinstated absolutist monarchs, led many people to feel that the dream of social and political change had ...
Hace 2 días · Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, monitoring the events of 1848 and 1849 with brisk alacrity, rejoiced at the perceived dawning of the long-awaited proletarian revolution; the exploited working classes would finally supplant the conservative monarchies’ suppression and emancipate themselves from authoritarian tyranny, securing the desired dictatorship of the proletariat [a]. [1]
