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23 ore fa · In December, Frederick II of Prussia invaded the Duchy of Silesia and requested that Maria Theresa cede it, threatening to join her enemies if she refused. Maria Theresa decided to fight for the mineral-rich province. Frederick even offered a compromise: he would defend Maria Theresa's rights if she agreed to cede to him at least a part of Silesia.
- 12 May 1743 – 29 November 1780
- Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
23 ore fa · The duchy consisted of lands seized by Austria and Prussia; its Grand Duke was Napoleon's ally King Frederick Augustus I of Saxony, but Napoleon appointed the intendants who administered the country. The population of 4.3 million was released from occupation and, by 1814, sent about 200,000 men to Napoleon's armies.
- 18 May 1803 – 20 November 1815, (12 years, 5 months and 4 weeks)
23 ore fa · Frederick Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg r. 1878-1885 1814-1885: Christian IX King of Denmark r. 1863-1906 1818-1906: Greek Royal Family Frederick VII King of Denmark r. 1848-1863 1808-1863: Ernst Günther II Duke of Schleswig-Holstein r. 1880-1921 1863-1921: Albert Duke of Schleswig-Holstein r. 1921-1931 1869-1931: Frederick ...
23 ore fa · Under the Treaty of Utrecht (1713), Frederick I's successor, Frederick William I of Prussia, ceded his territorial claim to Louis XIV, keeping only a claim to the title. Friso's posthumous son, William IV , succeeded to the title at his birth in 1711; in the Treaty of Partition (1732), William IV agreed to share the title "Prince of Orange" with Frederick William.
23 ore fa · Harry [1] Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, KG, GCB, PC, FRS (20 October 1784 – 18 October 1865), known as Lord Palmerston, was a British statesman and politician who was twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century. Palmerston dominated British foreign policy during the period 1830 to 1865, when Britain stood ...
23 ore fa · Succeeded by. Otto Gessler. Charles Edward (Leopold Charles Edward George Albert; [note 1] 19 July 1884 – 6 March 1954) was a British prince until 1919, the last sovereign duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, a state of the German Empire, reigning from 30 July 1900 to 14 November 1918, and later a Nazi politician.
23 ore fa · In 1438, Duke Albert V of Austria was chosen as the successor to his father-in-law, Emperor Sigismund. Although Albert himself only reigned for a year, henceforth every emperor of the Holy Roman Empire was a Habsburg, with only one exception. The Habsburgs began also to accumulate territory far from the hereditary lands.
