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5 giorni fa · Plan of the main floor ( c.1837, with north to the right), showing the Hall of Mirrors in red, the Hall of Battles in green, the Royal Chapel in yellow, and the Royal Opera in blue. The Palace of Versailles is a visual history of French architecture from the 1630s to the 1780s.
3 giorni fa · The War of the Spanish Succession was a European great power conflict fought between 1701 and 1714. The immediate cause was the death of the childless Charles II of Spain in November 1700, which led to a struggle for control of the Spanish Empire amongst supporters of the claimant Bourbon and Habsburg dynasties.
6 giorni fa · In 1710, he applied ideas of gradualism and uniformitarianism to linguistics in a short essay. He refuted the belief, widely held by Christian scholars of the time, that Hebrew was the primeval language of the human race.
3 giorni fa · Baltic states - Hanseatic League, Reformation, Nationalism: During its first two centuries Lithuania’s political union with Poland consisted of a loose alliance based on a joint ruler. On July 1, 1569, the purely personal union was refashioned by a joint parliament meeting in Lublin into a Commonwealth of Two Peoples.
4 giorni fa · Finally, however, Peter I (the Great) managed to “break the window” to the Baltic Sea. In the course of the Second Northern War, he took Riga from the Swedes in 1710, and at the end of the war he secured Vidzeme from Sweden under the Peace of Nystad (1721).
4 giorni fa · Plan of Broad Street and Cornhill wards. Bank of England. In Threadneedle street behind the Royal Exchange, but rather to the westward, close to St. Christopher's church, stands the Bank of England, which was built in 1732; the business of the company until that time having been transacted in Grocer's-hall.
2 giorni fa · Emperors and empresses regnant of Japan. reign*. *Reign dates for the first 28 sovereigns and the regent Jingū (given in italics) are taken from the Nihon shoki ("Chronicles of Japan").
