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5 days ago · Siemowit IV Piast of Masovia is geboren rond 1353. Hij is getrouwd in het jaar 1387 in Vilnius, Lithuania met Aleksandra Olgierdówna Giedyminowicz, ze kregen 1 kind. Hij is overleden op 21 januari 1426 in Gostynin, Plock, Poland.
1 day ago · The Grand Duchy of Lithuania was a sovereign state in northeastern Europe that existed from the 13th century, [5] succeeding the Kingdom of Lithuania, to the late 18th century, [6] when the territory was suppressed during the 1795 partitions of Poland–Lithuania. The state was founded by Lithuanians, who were at the time a polytheistic nation ...
2 days ago · Dario T. W. Czołem/Salve, fellow net traveler... I am Dariusz aka Dario and this is my meydân. Born in the year of the Fire Horse hence I never tire of reading about, drawing, p
5 days ago · Catherine II lured the Mennonite believers from Prussia into Ukraine in 1789. The privileges promised included guarantees of religious freedom , exemption from military service , and free land . 85 years later, on the eve of the new war with Turkey in 1874, Russia declared an intention to draft Mennonites into the army service.
3 days ago · Wilhelm II [b] (Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert; 27 January 1859 – 4 June 1941) was the last German Emperor and King of Prussia from 1888 until his abdication in 1918, which marked the end of the German Empire and the House of Hohenzollern 's 300-year reign in Prussia and 500-year reign in Brandenburg . Born during the reign of his granduncle ...
5 days ago · Pope John Paul II shakes hands with Queen Elizabeth II as he leaves Buckingham Palace after their historic May 28, 1982, meeting in London. (photo: Ron Bell / AFP via Getty Images) “For the first time in history,” said Pope St. John Paul II after he stepped off the airplane, “a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil.”
3 days ago · Constantine II (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Βʹ, romanized: Konstantínos II, pronounced [ˌkonstaˈdinos ðefˈteros]; 2 June 1940 – 10 January 2023) was the last King of Greece, reigning from 6 March 1964 until the abolition of the Greek monarchy on 1 June 1973.
