April 26 is the 116th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (117th in leap years). There are 249 days remaining. April 26 - Events. 1478 - The Pazzi attack Lorenzo de' Medici and kill his brother Giuliano during High Mass in the Florence Cathedral. 1607 - English colonists of the Jamestown settlement make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia. 1865 - American Civil War: Confederate General Joseph Johnston surrenders his army to General William Tecumseh S ...

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August 1 is the 213th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (214th in leap years), with 152 days remaining. August 1 - Events. 527 - Justinian I becomes Byzantine Emperor. 607 - Ono no Imoko is dispatched as envoy to the Sui court in China (Traditional Japanese date: July 3, 607). 1291 - The Swiss Confederation is formed. 1492 - Ferdinand and Isabella drive the Jews out of Spain. 1461 - Edward IV is crowned king of England. 1498 - Christop ...

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August 18 is the 230th day of the year (231st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 135 days remaining. August 18 - Events. 1201 - The city of Riga is founded. 1541 - A Portuguese ship drifts ashore in the ancient Japanese province of Higo (modern day Kumamoto Prefecture). (Traditional Japanese date: July 27, 1541) 1572 - Wedding in Paris of the Huguenot King Henry III of Navarre with Marguerite de Valois, in a supposed attempt to reconcil ...

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August 2 is the 214th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (215th in leap years), with 151 days remaining. August 2 - Events. 338 BC - Rise of Macedon: Philip II of Macedon crushes Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea. 216 BC - Punic Wars: In the Battle of Cannae, Hannibal destroys the Roman army of Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro in what is considered one of the great masterpieces of the tactical art. 461 - Majorian resig ...

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by evan haworth-staines The Atlantic slave trade was the capture and transport of black Africans into bondage and servitude in the New World. It is sometimes called the Maafa by African Americans. This term means holocaust or great disaster in kiswahili. The slaves were one element of a three-part economic cycle—the Triangular Trade and its infamous Middle Passage—which ultimately involved four continents, four ...

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Ascension Island is an island in the South Atlantic Ocean, and includes tiny satellite islands and rocks such as Boatswain Bird Island, Boatswain Bird Rock (East), White Rocks (South), and Tartar Rock (West, at the shore of Georgetown). It is a Crown Colony of the United Kingdom. It is one of a number of hotspot oceanic islands in the South Atlantic (which include the sister islands of Saint H ...

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April 6 is the 96th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (97th in leap years). There are 269 days remaining. April 6 - Events. 648 BC - Earliest solar eclipse recorded by the Ancient Greeks. 402 - Stilicho stymies the Visigoths under Alaric in the Battle of Pollentia 1320 - The Scots reaffirm their independence by signing the Declaration of Arbroath. 1327 - The poet Petrarch first saw his idealized love Laura in the church of Saint Claire ...

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The Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel is a triumphal arch in Paris, France. It is located on the Place du Carrousel, just to the west of the Louvre. Designed by Charles Percier and Pierre Léonard Fontaine, the arch was built between 1806-1808 by the Emperor Napoleon I on the model of the Arch of Septimus Severus in Rome. It was commissioned to commemorate France's military victories in 1805. It was originally surmounted by the famous horses of Saint Mark's Cathedral in Venice, looted by Napoleon, but these were returned there in 18 ...

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The Most Noble Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, KG, GCB, GCH, PC, FRS (c. 1 May 1769 – 14 September 1852) was an Anglo-Irish soldier and statesman, widely considered one of the leading military and political figures of the 19th century. Commissioned an Ensign in the British Army, he would rise to prominence in the Napoleonic Wars, eventually reaching the rank of Field Marshal. Wellington commanded the Allied forces during the Peninsular War, pushing the French Army out of Portugal and Spain and reaching southern Fran ...

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Zwickau is a city of Germany, in the Bundesland Saxony (Sachsen), situated in a valley at the foot of the Erzgebirge, on the left bank of the Zwickauer Mulde, 130 km (82 miles) southwest of Dresden, south of Leipzig and south west of Chemnitz. (Population: slightly above 100,000). It is accessed by nearest autobahnen, the A72 and A4 along with a train station. Zwickau - Boundaries. Zwickau is bounded by Mülsen, Reinsdorf, Wilkau-Haßlau, Hirschfeld (Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Kirchberg), Lichtentanne, ...

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Amnesty (from the Greek amnestia, oblivion) is an act of justice by which the supreme power in a state restores those who may have been guilty of any offence against it to the position of innocent persons. It includes more than pardon, inasmuch as it obliterates all legal remembrance of the offence. Amnesties, which, in the United Kingdom, may be granted by the crown alone, or by act of Parliament, were formerly usual on coronations and similar occasions, but are chiefly exercised towards associations of political crimin ...

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June 6 is the 157th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (158th in leap years), with 208 days remaining. June 6 - Events. 1508 - Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, is defeated in Friulia by Venetian forces; he is forced to sign a three-year truce and cede several territories to Venice 1513 - Italian Wars: Battle of Novara. Swiss troops defeat the French under Louis de la Tremoille, forcing the French to abandon Milan. Duke Massimiliano Sforza is restored.Including:

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Bas-Rhin is a French département. The name means "Lower Rhine". Bas-Rhin - History. The département was created on 4 March 1790, during the French Revolution. In the mid-1790s, following the French occupation of the entire left bank of the Rhine, the département's northern boundary was extended north beyond the Lauter to the Queich river to include the areas of Annweiler am Trifels, Landau an der Pfalz, Bad Bergzabern, and Wörth an der Rhein. However, upon Napoleon's s ...

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Barthold Georg Niebuhr (August 27, 1776 – January 2, 1831) was a German statesman and historian. Son of Carsten Niebuhr, he was born at Copenhagen. From the earliest age young Niebuhr manifested extraordinary precocity, and from 1794 to 1796, being already a finished classical scholar and acquainted with several modern languages, he studied at the University of Kiel. After quitting the university he became private secretary to Count Schimmelmann, Danish minister of finance. But in 1798 he gave up this appointment and travelled in Great Britain, spending a ...

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The title of Baron Brownlow was created in the Peerage of Great Britain in 1776. The 2nd Baron was made Earl Brownlow and Viscount Alford in 1815, but these titles became extinct in 1921. The Barony is still extant. Baron Brownlow - Barons Brownlow 1776. Brownlow Cust, 1st Baron Brownlow (1744-1807) John Cust, 1st Earl Brownlow, 2nd Baron Brownlow (1779-1853) John William Spencer Brownlow Egerton-Cust, 2nd Earl Brownlow, 3rd Baron Brownlow (1842-1867) A ...

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The Battle of New Orleans, also known as the Battle of Chalmette Plantation, took place on January 8, 1815, during the War of 1812, when the United States forces defeated the British. The Treaty of Ghent, which ended the war, had been signed over two weeks earlier, but the news had not yet reached the battle-front. In December of 1814, British forces under Major General Sir Edward Pakenham landed along the lower Mississippi River. At first, they met with only minor resistance. The Americans, led by Andrew Jackson (a colo ...

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December 6 is the 340th day (341st on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 25 days remaining. December 6 - Events. 963 - Leo VIII is elected Pope. 1240 - Mongol invasion of Rus: Kiev under Danylo of Halych and Voivode Dmytro falls to the Mongols under Batu Khan. 1534 - The city of Quito in Ecuador is founded by Spanish settlers led by Sebastián de Belalcázar. 1768 - The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica is ...

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Battleship was — from the 15th century until the mid-20th century — the name given to the most heavily gun-armed, most heavily armored, most powerful and most effective class of warship, at any particular time. The name has therefore been applied to a wide range of quite different vessels, from wooden galleons, through sail battleships of the "Age of Sail" and coastal battleships of the early 20th Century, to the massive, modern Yamato class ships built by Japan during World War II. ...

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The 3rd Queen Alexandra's Own Gurkha Rifles, first raised in 1815, was a regiment of the British Indian Army. Upon India's independence in 1947 the regiment joined the Indian Army; in 1950, the name was changed to the 3rd Gorkha Rifles. 3rd Queen Alexandra's Own Gurkha Rifles - History. 3rd Queen Alexandra's Own Gurkha Rifles - 1815-1885. The regiment was raised by Sir Robert Colquhoun on 24 April 1815 as the Kemaoon Battalion. It did not consist entirely of Gurkhas but o ...

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The Battle of Waterloo, fought on June 18, 1815, was Napoleon Bonaparte's last battle. After his exile to Elba, he had reinstalled himself on the throne of France for a Hundred Days. During this time, the forces of the rest of Europe converged on him, commanded by the United Kingdom's Duke of Wellington, and Prussia's Gebhard von Blücher. The battlefield is in Belgium, about 12km (7.5 miles) SSE of Brussels, and 2km (1.2 miles) from the town of Waterloo, at 50°40′45″N, Including:

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Though at least a proportion of them are better described as privateers, the Barbary pirates operated out of Tunis, Tripoli, Algiers, Salè and ports in Morocco, preying on shipping in the western Mediterranean Sea from the time of the Crusades as well as on ships on their way to Asia around Africa until the early 19th century. Their stronghold was along the stretch of northern Africa known as the Barbary Coast (a medieval term for the Maghreb after its Berber inhabitants), although their predation was said to extend as far nor ...

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Bad Kreuznach is a district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the districts of Rhein-Hunsrück, Mainz-Bingen, Alzey-Worms, Donnersbergkreis, Kusel and Birkenfeld. Bad Kreuznach district - History. The region is full of medieval castles, especially along the Nahe River. Best known is the Kyrburg of Kirn, built in the 12th century and sitting in state above the river. In 1815 the district of Kreuznach was established by the Prussian government. In 1932 it ...

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