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1 day ago · Charlemagne [b] ( / ˈʃɑːrləmeɪn, ˌʃɑːrləˈmeɪn / SHAR-lə-mayn, -MAYN; 2 April 748 [a] – 28 January 814) was King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and Emperor of what is now known as the Carolingian Empire from 800, holding all these titles until his death in 814.
1 day ago · Hungary, landlocked country of central Europe. The capital is Budapest . At the end of World War I , defeated Hungary lost 71 percent of its territory as a result of the Treaty of Trianon (1920).
5 days ago · On June 28, 1914, the shots that rang out in Sarajevo, capital of the Austro-Hungarian province of Bosnia and Herzegovina, would reverberate around the world. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Habsburg throne, by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip set in motion a chain of events that would lead to the outbreak of the ...
2 days ago · His scholarly reputation was enhanced by his study of Charles I, the best study of the King so far published. He has now turned his attention to Charles’s relationship with his peerage from his accession in 1625 to the eve of the outbreak of the English Civil War in 1642.
3 days ago · In this article, Legacy Tree Genealogists Kathryne Thorne helps you understand three key ways to find your Hungarian Jewish ancestors. Depending on when your ancestors were born, “Hungary” may have looked very different than it does today. Before 1918, the Kingdom of Hungary included not just the modern country of Hungary but also Slovakia ...
3 days ago · Treaty of Trianon, (1920), treaty concluding World War I and signed by representatives of Hungary on one side and the Allied Powers on the other. It was signed on June 4, 1920, at the Trianon Palace at Versailles, France .
3 days ago · Holy Roman Emperor Charles V was the most powerful man in Europe in the early 16th century, running a territory that sprawled across the continent and beyond, to the New World. But the man born in Ghent in 1500 and raised in Mechelen would abdicate in Brussels at the age of 55.
