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17 hours ago · Dubbed in the Hall of State in the old Tre Kronor palace in Stockholm by the English Ambassador to Sweden, Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Carlisle, on 29 July 1669. 470 John George II, Elector of Saxony: 1613–1680 1668 471 Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle: 1653–1688 1670 472 John Maitland, 1st Duke of Lauderdale: 1616–1682 1672 473
17 hours ago · The duchy consisted of lands seized by Austria and Prussia; its Grand Duke was Napoleon's ally King Frederick Augustus I of Saxony, but Napoleon appointed the intendants who administered the country. The population of 4.3 million was released from occupation and, by 1814, sent about 200,000 men to Napoleon's armies.
17 hours ago · In 1711, Peter visited elector August II of Poland in Dresden, Carlsbad and Torgau where his son Aleksei married. In 1713 he visited Hamburg, sieged Tönningen with his allies. He then traveled to Hanover and was a guest of Duke Anton Ulrich of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel in Salzdahlum. From Danzig he sailed to Riga, Helsingfors and Turku.
17 hours ago · Augustus II the Strong Germany: Hubertusburg: Wermsdorf: Augustus II the Strong Germany: Nischwitz Palace: Thallwitz, Saxony Heinrich von Brühl Germany: Rammenau Castle Rammenau, Saxony Ernst Ferdinand von Knoch Germany: Moszinska Palace (destroyed) Dresden: Augustus II the Strong Germany: Zwinger (rebuilt) Dresden: Augustus II the Strong Germany
17 hours ago · George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 1738 – 29 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 25 October 1760 until his death in 1820. The Acts of Union 1800 unified Great Britain and Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, with George as its king. He was concurrently Duke and Prince-elector of Hanover ...
17 hours ago · Transylvania is a historical region in central and northwestern Romania. It was under the rule of the Agathyrsi, part of the Dacian Kingdom (168 BC–106 AD), Roman Dacia (106–271), the Goths, the Hunnic Empire (4th–5th centuries), the Kingdom of the Gepids (5th–6th centuries), the Avar Khaganate (6th–9th centuries), the Slavs, and the ...
May 31, 2024 · Albert Einstein (1879–1955) has said: “Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.” Francis S. Collins, the leader of the Human Genome Project, in his book The language of God describes his journey from atheism to Christianity: “I had started this journey of intellectual exploration to confirm my atheism.
