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4 days ago · Levant ==== November 12: During an 11-year reign, Al-Mu'azzam Isa, the Ayyubid emperor of Damascus, passes away. An-Nasir Dawud, his 21-year-old son, succeeds him; nevertheless, he must contend with opposition from his uncle, Sultan Al-Kamil of Egypt. England Spring: Henry III, then 19 years old, takes over as leader of the country.
1 day ago · George was born during the reign of his paternal grandfather, King George II, as the first son of Frederick, Prince of Wales, and Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha. Following his father's death in 1751, Prince George became heir apparent and Prince of Wales .
4 days ago · Mohammed Amin al-Husseini (Arabic: محمد أمين الحسيني; c. 1897 – 4 July 1974) was a Palestinian Arab nationalist and Muslim leader in Mandatory Palestine. Al-Husseini was the scion of the al-Husayni family of Jerusalemite Arab nobles, who trace their origins to the Islamic Prophet Muhammad.
5 days ago · After Frederick II‘s death in 1250, Castel del Monte endured a tumultuous history. It served brief stints as a prison and a refuge during the plague before falling into disrepair for centuries. The castle‘s decline was exacerbated by the looting of its precious marble and decorative elements. In the early 20th century, restoration efforts ...
6 days ago · The Second Army under Prince Frederick Charles used its artillery to pulverize the French position at St. Privat. His XII Corps took the town of Roncourt and helped the Guard conquer St. Privat, while Eduard von Fransecky's II Corps advanced across the Mance ravine. The fighting died down at 22:00.
- France and the Rhine Province, Prussia
- German annexation of Alsace-Lorraine
4 days ago · After the completion of his secondary-level studies, his tutor Frederick Waymouth Gibbs was replaced by Robert Bruce as his personal governor. After an educational trip to Rome, undertaken in the first few months of 1859, Edward spent the summer of that year studying at the University of Edinburgh under, among others, the chemist Lyon Playfair.
1 day ago · Name Common English terms for the German state in the Nazi era are "Nazi Germany" and the "Third Reich", which Hitler and the Nazis also referred to as the "Thousand-Year Reich" (Tausendjähriges Reich). The latter, a translation of the Nazi propaganda term Drittes Reich, was first used in Das Dritte Reich, a 1923 book by Arthur Moeller van den Bruck. The book counted the Holy Roman Empire ...
