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2 days ago · The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of conflicts fought between the First French Empire under Napoleon (1804–1815) and a fluctuating array of European coalitions. The wars originated in political forces arising from the French Revolution (1789–1799) and from the French Revolutionary Wars (1792–1802), and produced a period of ...
1 day ago · Hostilities were halted on August 12, 1898, with the signing in Washington of a Protocol of Peace between the United States and Spain. After over two months of difficult negotiations, the formal peace treaty, the Treaty of Paris, was signed in Paris on December 10, 1898, and was ratified by the United States Senate on February 6, 1899.
Apr 26, 2024 · League of Nations, an organization for international cooperation established on January 10, 1920, at the initiative of the victorious Allied powers at the end of World War I. Cloth Hall after the Battle of Ypres. British troops passing through the ruins of Ypres, West Flanders, Belgium, September 29, 1918. (more)
Apr 27, 2024 · The Maastricht Treaty, officially the Treaty on European Union, was signed by 12 countries in Maastricht on 7 February 1992, and entered into force on 1 November 1993. The Treaty of Nice It aimed to prepare the EU for its biggest enlargement - with 10 new member states in 2004 and with two more in 2007.
Apr 30, 2024 · The Siege of Yorktown, fought between September 28 and October 19, 1781, was a decisive engagement that effectively ended major hostilities in the American Revolutionary War. General George Washington, leading a combined force of American Continental Army troops and French allies, laid siege to the British-held town of Yorktown, Virginia.
May 3, 2024 · The Congress of Vienna. The Congress of Vienna was an agreement between the powers of Europe to reorganize Europe geographically and politically after the Napoleonic Wars. Completed in 1815, it was the most comprehensive yet seen in Europe. A series of wars beginning in the 1790s had pitted Revolutionary France against a series of other ...
Apr 21, 2024 · Louis IX (born April 25, 1214, Poissy, France—died August 25, 1270, near Tunis [now in Tunisia]; canonized August 11, 1297, feast day August 25) was the king of France from 1226 to 1270, the most popular of the Capetian monarchs. He led the Seventh Crusade to the Holy Land in 1248–50 and died on another Crusade to Tunisia.
