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Hace 2 días · Moreover, upon his death, Saxony, Prussia, Bavaria, and France all repudiated the sanction they had recognised during his lifetime. Frederick II of Prussia (who became Maria Theresa's greatest rival for most of her reign) promptly invaded and took the affluent Habsburg province of Silesia in the eight-year conflict known as the War of the Austrian Succession .
- 12 May 1743 – 29 November 1780
- Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
Hace 3 días · Wilhelm von Wedell (this branch’s preferred spelling) served the Prussian kings as President of the Province of Saxony (1844) then of the Province of Silesia (1845-48). He was removed for neglecting to manage crop failures or suppressing the protest movements that broke out there as a result in the revolutionary year of 1848 (he himself had to flee its capital, Breslau).
Hace 1 día · The Seven Years' War (1756–1763) was a global conflict involving most of the European great powers, fought primarily in Europe and the Americas. One of the opposing alliances was led by Great Britain and Prussia. The other alliance was led by France, backed by Spain, Saxony, Sweden, and Russia.
Hace 4 días · Frederick III [a] (Friedrich Wilhelm Nikolaus Karl; 18 October 1831 – 15 June 1888) was German Emperor and King of Prussia for 99 days between March and June 1888, during the Year of the Three Emperors. Known informally as "Fritz", he was the only son of Emperor Wilhelm I and was raised in his family's tradition of military service.
Hace 4 días · 13/02/2024. Saint Catherine de Ricci. Feast Day: February 13 – CNA. The Ricci are an ancient family in Tuscany. Catherine was born at Florence in 1522, and called at her baptism Alexandrina, but she took the name of Catherine at her religious profession.
Hace 4 días · Clement VII, Italian pope from 1523 to 1534. He was primarily seen as a Renaissance prince preoccupied with Italian politics and the advancement of his family, the Medici. His indecisiveness allowed the Protestant Reformation to grow and resulted in Henry VIII’s eventual split from Rome.
Hace 5 días · The 1667 treaty between the French and the Mohawks allowed the return of the “Black Robes” — Jesuit missionaries — to evangelize the Mohawk tribe. On April 5, 1676, the girl was baptized. She was given the name Kateri after St. Catherine of Siena, the Third Order Dominican mystic and Doctor of the Church who had died in Rome in 1380 at ...
