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1 giorno fa · Early life Franz Joseph and his mother Archduchess Sophie , by Joseph Karl Stieler Franz Joseph's family gathered in prayer, 1839 Franz Joseph was born on 18 August 1830 in the Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna (on the 65th anniversary of the death of Francis of Lorraine ) as the eldest son of Archduke Franz Karl (the younger son of Francis I ), and his wife Sophie, Princess of Bavaria .
- 2 December 1848 – 21 November 1916
- Princess Sophie of Bavaria
6 ore fa · The East India Company ( EIC) [a] was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. [4] It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia ), and later with East Asia. The company gained control of large parts of the Indian ...
- 31 December 1600; 422 years ago
6 ore fa · African-American history started with the arrival of Africans to North America in the 16th and 17th centuries. Former Spanish slaves who had been freed by Francis Drake arrived aboard the Golden Hind at New Albion in California in 1579. [1] The European colonization of the Americas, and the resulting Atlantic slave trade, led to a large-scale ...
6 ore fa · Press Release. ST. LEO, Florida — For Devon Wilson, being first means something special. Wilson, of Riverview, FL, became the “first of the first” on May 11 as Saint Leo University’s inaugural Bachelor of Arts in Veteran Studies Degree graduate in the nation’s first veteran studies bachelor’s program.
6 ore fa · The English word Germany derives from the Latin Germania, which came into use after Julius Caesar adopted it for the peoples east of the Rhine. The German term Deutschland, originally diutisciu land ('the German lands') is derived from deutsch (cf. Dutch), descended from Old High German diutisc 'of the people' (from diot or diota 'people'), originally used to distinguish the language of the ...
6 ore fa · These included Hong Kong from 1863 to 1866; Cyprus from 1955 until 1960 (and continued on the island as the division of the Cypriot pound until 1983); and the Palestine Mandate from 1926 until 1948. Later, in 1966, the UK Government decided to include in the Queen's Speech a plan to convert sterling into a decimal currency.
