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- Independent Socialists in Munich had forced the abdication on November 8 of Bavaria’s King Louis III and proclaimed a Bavarian socialist republic.
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5 days ago · At the same time, the Palatinate was conquered by Spanish and Bavarian troops, and the electoral title was transferred to Maximilian of Bavaria in 1623. In the Palatinate, too, the Counter-Reformation sought to bring Protestantism to an end.
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3 days ago · The empire was forged not as the result of the outpouring of nationalist feeling from the masses but through traditional cabinet diplomacy and agreement by the leaders of the states in the North German Confederation, led by Prussia, with the hereditary rulers of Bavaria, Baden, Hesse-Darmstadt, and Württemberg.
3 days ago · Prussia, which at the end of the 18th century had been in the process of becoming a binational state, was thrust back into Germany and given a strategic position on both frontiers of the nation. The centre of gravity of Austria, on the other hand, shifted eastward.
1 day ago · For 250 years, the Merovingian dynasty ruled France –“and came dangerously near to destroying it.” It was an age of familial wars and endless violence. For example, Clovis’s son Chilperic, whom the later French Chronicler Gregory of Tours dubbed “the Nero and Herod of his time,” engaged in a bloody feud with his own brother when his ...
On August 29, 1881, Scotland’s Courier and Argus commented on the rumoured engagement of an Austrian Archduchess to Ludwig II of Bavaria. Despite careful phrasing, the paper conveyed a pretty obvious message: Don’t go there, girl. The Swan King is a screaming Queen.
2 days ago · The Hanseatic League was never formally founded, so it lacks a date of foundation.: 2 Historians traditionally traced its origins to the rebuilding of the north German town of Lübeck in 1159 by the powerful Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony and Bavaria, after he had captured the area from Adolf II, Count of Schauenburg and Holstein.
3 days ago · In the end, the Central Powers had to relinquish all of their captured lands on the eastern front, with Germany even being forced to cede territory they held before the war, under various treaties (such as the Treaty of Versailles) signed after the armistice in 1918.
