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2 days ago · Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany (r. 1824–1859), in the uniform of an Austrian field marshal, 1828, after Pietro Benvenuti. The Napoleonic system collapsed in 1814, and the following territorial settlement agreed to at the Congress of Vienna, ceded the State of Presidi and the Principality of Piombino to a restored Tuscany. Ferdinand III ...
- Cosimo I
Cosimo was born in Florence on 12 June 1519, the son of the...
- Duchy of Florence
The Duchy of Florence (Italian: Ducato di Firenze) was an...
- Ferdinand IV
Ferdinand IV, Grand Duke of Tuscany (Italian: Ferdinando IV,...
- Principality of Lucca and Piombino
In 1814, the Imperial Austrian Army occupied Lucca, ending...
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16 hours ago · The title of Grand Duke, was in fact the second title of recognition within the Tuscan politics given by a Pope to the Medici family, the first being that of Duke of the Florentine Republic, created by Pope Clement VII in 1532. [3] [4] The official residence of the Grand Dukes was the Palazzo Pitti in Florence, bought by the Medici in 1549. [5]
2 days ago · Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II: 5 May 1747: 1 March 1792: married Infanta Maria Luisa of Spain (1745–1792), had issue. Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1765 (abdicated 1790), Holy Roman Emperor from 1790, Archduke of Austria, King of Hungary and King of Bohemia from 1790. 10: Archduchess Maria Carolina of Austria: 17 September 1748: 17 September ...
5 days ago · A curious source in which medicinal substances of the time have been preserved is the workbench of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, Leopold Hapsburg-Lorraine (1747–1792), who later became the Holy Roman Emperor as Leopold II.
4 days ago · Italy - Revolutions, 1848, Unification: The first of the Revolutions of 1848 erupted in Palermo on January 9. Starting as a popular insurrection, it soon took on overtones of Sicilian separatism and spread throughout the island. Piecemeal reforms proved inadequate to satisfy the revolutionaries, both noble and bourgeois, who were determined to have a new and more liberal constitution ...
5 days ago · The Black Lives Matter protests about police brutality in the United States were mirrored in Europe, where strains of racism are baked into the system. In Belgium, the focal points of the rage were the statues of King Leopold II who presided over the pillaging of Congo’s natural resources and the violent exploitation of its population.
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3 days ago · Finding the French Navy unappreciative of his skills, Acton, the son of an expatriate Englishman, joined the forces of Peter Leopold (later Holy Roman emperor Leopold II), grand duke of Tuscany, and distinguished himself by commanding a Tuscan squadron when Spain and Tuscany joined forces against Algeria (1774).
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