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5 days ago · The North. Remains of the Antonine Wall in Scotland. In AD 43, the Romans invaded England, and over the next 45 or so years, they inched north until they reached the furthest northern limit of the empire in central Scotland. They built the Antonine wall and slowly regressed back toward the south until the early 5th century AD, when the Romans ...
1 day ago · The Swedish invasion of the Holy Roman Empire or the Swedish Intervention in the Thirty Years' War is a historically accepted division of the Thirty Years' War. It was a military conflict that took place between 1630 and 1635, during the course of the Thirty Years' War.
- 1630-1635
- Throughout the Holy Roman Empire
5 days ago · As a group, Abate Luigi, Pasquino, Il Facchino, Madama Lucrezia, Marforio and Il Babuino earned the nickname of Rome’s statue parlanti, or talking statues, not because they actually spoke, but ...
4 days ago · It was evident that the misgovernment of the Roman state and the Greco-Roman world by the Roman nobility could not continue indefinitely and it was fairly clear that the most probable alternative was some form of military dictatorship backed by dispossessed Italian peasants who had turned to long-term military service.
- Julius Caesar's family was old Roman nobility, but they were not rich. His father died when he was 16, but he received significant support from his...
- Julius Caesar was a political and military genius who overthrew Rome’s decaying political order and replaced it with a dictatorship. He triumphed i...
- Julius Caesar was murdered in the Roman Senate House by a group of nobles on March 15, 44 BCE. The assassination plot was led by Gaius Cassius Long...
- Julius Caesar crafted an alliance with Marcus Licinius Crassus and Pompey to form the First Triumvirate and challenge the power of the Roman Senate...
1 day ago · As governed by the Holy See, Vatican City State is an ecclesiastical or sacerdotal - monarchical state ruled by the Pope, who is the bishop of Rome and head of the Catholic Church. [6] [22] The highest state functionaries are all Catholic clergy of various origins.
2 days ago · The Holy Roman Empire was a limited elective monarchy composed of hundreds of state-like entities. In the Dutch–Hanseatic War (1438–1441), a privateer war mostly waged by Wendish towns, the merchants of Amsterdam sought and eventually won free access to the Baltic.
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4 days ago · Rome itself was sacked by Alaric and the Visigoths in A.D. 410. The traditional date of the Fall of the Western Empire is 476, when Odoacer the Barbarian defeated the Roman legions defending their capital and installed himself on the throne of the empire. ( The Empire had, by this time, been divided into two parts: Eastern and Western.
