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Hace 4 días · Catherine the Great (born April 21 [May 2, New Style], 1729, Stettin, Prussia [now Szczecin, Poland]—died November 6 [November 17], 1796, Tsarskoye Selo [now Pushkin], near St. Petersburg, Russia) was a German-born empress of Russia (1762–96) who led her country into full participation in the political and cultural life of Europe ...
Hace 1 día · On February 19, 1871, Anna Luise was born in Hermsdorf Castle as the only daughter and youngest child of Prince Georg of Schönburg-Waldenburg (1828–1900) and Princess Luise (1844–1922), daughter of Prince Adolf of Bentheim -Tecklenburg-Rheda, to the world. Together with her brothers Prince Hermann of Schönburg-Waldenburg| (1865–1943 ...
Hace 3 días · Prussian ambassador's letter to Frederick the Great [g] The Treaty of Breslau of June 1742 ended hostilities between Austria and Prussia. With the First Silesian War at an end, the Queen soon made the recovery of Bohemia her priority. French troops fled Bohemia in the winter of the same year. On 12 May 1743, Maria Theresa was crowned Queen of Bohemia in St. Vitus Cathedral suo jure. Prussia ...
Hace 5 días · The Prince and Princess of Wales are celebrating their wedding anniversary this year by taking a moment to look back. Earlier today, the couple released a never-before-seen photograph from their ...
Hace 3 días · Frederick the Great. 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.
Hace 4 días · Anne, the Princess Royal (born August 15, 1950, London, England) British royal, second child and only daughter of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, duke of Edinburgh. For the eight years between her mother’s accession in 1952 and the birth of Prince Andrew in 1960, she was second—to her older brother, Prince Charles —in the ...
Hace 2 días · On May 2, 1729, a girl was born who was more likely to receive the crown of Sweden than of Russia: niece of King Adolf Frederick, Princess of Zerbst Sophia-Frederika-Augusta. The changing fate made her Queen Catherine and allowed her to defeat the Swedes in 1790. Not just them: the most famous of empresses seems to attract success to herself.
