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- Maria Theresa of Austria (8450 bytes)
31: ...d her internal and external policies on defeating Prussia and regaining the lands that had been taken from ...
35: ...gning the Treaty of Hubertusberg which recognized Prussian ownership of Silesia. - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
5: ...g an obsession with neighboring and enemy country Prussia, alienated the same groups that Catherine had cul...
11: ...the throne as a legal body; freed the nobles from state service and taxes; made noble status hereditary; ...
17: ...e creation of a "Northern Accord" between Russia, Prussia, Poland, Sweden, and perhaps Great Britain, to co...
19: ...land|partitions]] among Russia, [[Austria]] and [[Prussia]] (1772, 1793 and 1795).
23: ...Bavarian Succession]] ([[1778]]-[[1779]]) between Prussia and Austria. In [[1780]] she set up a group desig... - Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
3: ... while shortening their terms of service to the [[state]]. She encouraged [[Lomonosov]]'s establishment o...
29: ...e, which thus became the boundary between the two states, including the fortresses of Villmanstrand and F...
31: ...ter her accession. He represented the anti-Franco-Prussian portion of her council, and his object was to br...
33: ...] and Sweden, and isolated the restless king of [[Prussia]] by environing him with hostile alliances. But a...
37: ...in other words the Franco-Austrian league against Prussia, and on the 17th of May 1757 the Russian army, 85... - Christina of Sweden (9364 bytes)
25: ...ria Eleonora of Brandenburg|Maria Eleonora]] of [[Prussia|Brandenburg]], came from the [[Hohenzollern]] fam...
31: ... burgesses and peasants) in the [[Riksdag of the Estates]] of [[1650]] for the reduction of tax-exempt no...
39: ...hness. She contemplated an alliance with Spain, a state quite outside the orbit of Sweden's influence, th... - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
25: ... By [[Salic law]], no woman could rule [[Hanover (state)|Hanover]], a realm which had shared a monarch wi...
46: ...arly offensive to Victoria was the [[Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs|Foreign Secretary]], [[Henry ...
69: ...evastating Victoria, who entered a semi-permanent state of mourning and wore black for the remainder of h...
76: ..., that the Queen began to gradually emerge from a state of perpetual mourning and isolation. With the enc...
96: ..., the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. The [[Secretary of State for the Colonies|Colonial Secretary]], [[Joseph C... - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
39: ...read shortage in [[Paris]]. Tradition would later state that it was at this point that Marie-Antoinette j...
63: ...pril]] [[1777]]. He had come to inquire about the state of her marriage, since the Austrians were concern...
68: ...ed with a girl. "A son would have belonged to the state," she said, "but ''you'' shall be mine, and have ...
77: ...rience a rural idyll in the comfort of their own estates. This tradition had begun with [[Louis XIV]]'s g...
93: ...rtly before her first birthday. The queen was devastated and spent hours weeping over the baby's body. - Clara Barton (9023 bytes)
12: ...et up one of the first free public schools in the state.
14: ...was appointed to a job as a clerk in the [[United States Patent and Trademark Office|Patent Office]] in [...
27: ...rian work during the war between [[France]] and [[Prussia]]. Created in [[1864]], the International Red Cro...
31: ...ational disaster, this service brought the United States the "Good Samaritan of Nations" label. Barton na... - George Washington (29551 bytes)
19: ...President of the [[1787]] [[History of the United States Constitution|Constitutional Convention]].
26: ...[[1752]], he rented and eventually inherited the estate, [[Mount Vernon (plantation)|Mount Vernon]] in [[...
49: ...ditions and drilled during the spring under the [[Prussia|German]] [[Baron Friedrich von Steuben]], steadil...
58: ...like most of the [[Founding Fathers of the United States]], abhorred the very idea.
66: ...sident]] of the [[United States of America|United States]]. See [[George Washington's presidency]]. - John Quincy Adams (11783 bytes)
18: ... of the United States|President]] of the [[United States]]. He was the son of President [[John Adams]] an...
24: ...ter to [[Portugal]] in [[1796]] and Minister to [[Prussia]] in [[1797]]. While serving abroad, he met [[Lou...
26: ...tes Federalist Party|Federalist]] to the [[United States Senate]] and served from [[March 4]], [[1803]], ...
30: ...he ones that Monroe decided upon. As Secretary of State, he negotiated the [[Adams-On�Treaty]] and help...
32: ...ial election of 1820]]. [[President of the United States|President]] [[James Monroe]] ran virtually unopp... - Germany (46412 bytes)
55: ... state, made up of 16 federal [[States of Germany|states]] (''L䮤er''), which in certain spheres act ind...
57: The Federal Republic of Germany is a member state of the [[United Nations]], [[NATO]], the [[G8]] n...
62: ... [[German Empire]], dominated by the [[Kingdom of Prussia]], was forged. This was the second German ''Reich...
66: ...ivision between [[Austria]], formerly the leading state of Germany, from the more western and northern pa...
71: ...profoundly furthered economic unity in the German states. - Hungary (18459 bytes)
63: ...[Transylvania]] in the East, where thus Hungarian statedom was preserved. After 150 years, [[Austria]] a...
67: ...ition (the [[Battle of Solferino]], [[1859]]) and Prussia ([[Battle of K?gratz]], [[1866]]), Hungary would ...
69: ...omanian army's departure and filled the vacuum of state power. In January [[1920]], elections were held f...
73: ...influence and was appropriated into a [[communist state]] following a short period of democracy in 1946&n...
82: ...he ''Orsz᧧yűl鳧') is the highest organ of state authority and initiates and approves legislation ... - Ukraine (22193 bytes)
53: ...ine is merely a region rather than an independent state. There was, however, no change in Ukrainian or Ru...
64: ...rt of the first Eastern [[Slavic peoples|Slavic]] state, [[Kievan Rus']]. Its capital was [[Kiev]], the c...
68: ...rritory of Ukraine became the center of important state in [[Europe]]— 'Kievan Rus' laying the foun...
74: ...Volodymyr-Volynskyi]], which were merged into the state of [[Halych-Volynia]]. This was later subjugated ...
76: ...yaslav]]. After the [[partitions of Poland]] by [[Prussia]], [[Austria]] and Russia at the end of the [[18]... - Luxembourg (11321 bytes)
1: ...nd Duchy of Luxembourg''' is a small [[landlocked state]] in the north-west of the continental [[European...
53: ...o Luxembourg, the country was disputed between [[Prussia]] and the [[Dutch kingdom]].
62: ...Duke has the power to dissolve parliament and reinstate a new one.
64: .... A second body, the "Conseil d'ɴat" (Council of State), composed of 21 ordinary citizens appointed by t... - Seven Years' War (11256 bytes)
1: ...itain|Great Britain]], [[Prussia]] and [[Hanover (state)|Hanover]] against [[France]], [[Austria]], [[Rus...
3: ...The name "Seven Years' War" is used in the United States to refer only to the [[Europe]]an portions of th...
5: ...e [[2nd Carnatic War]] while the fighting between Prussia and Austria is called the [[Silesian Wars|3rd Sil...
8: ...n]]. During that conflict, King [[Frederick II of Prussia]] had gained the rich province of [[Silesia]]. Em...
10: ...ready had the most formidable [[navy]] in Europe, Prussia had the most formidable land force on continental... - World War I (62979 bytes)
6: ...nd laid the basis for a modern democratic Islamic state, Turkey. Activity by the French and British force...
8: ...ch indignation at the French defeat in the Franco-Prussian that would lead France to exploit a Balkan crisi...
16: ... the defeat of France and formation of the German state under the leadership of [[Otto von Bismarck]] in ...
22: ...eich of 1867]]''" after Austria was defeated by [[Prussia]]. As agreed to in [[1867]] the Habsburgs would b...
38: ...rnish Austria-Hungary with explanations regarding statements from high Serbian officials both in Serbia a... - Colonial America (32872 bytes)
4: ...in the lands that later became the eastern United States. Listed from north to south, they are: [[New En...
13: ...lands]]. The lands that now make up the [[United States]] presented themselves as an attractive place fo...
31: ...till extraordinary ones in the second year. This state of economic affairs did not last, but tobacco con...
39: ...ny since its establishment was dissolved, but reinstated in [[1630]]. It shared power with a royally appo...
54: ...ture that still lingers on in the modern [[United States]]. - January 2 (10888 bytes)
10: ...th state to ratify the [[United States]] [[United States Constitution|Constitution]].
11: *[[1793]] - [[Russia]] and [[Prussia]] partition [[Poland]].
29: *[[1923]] - [[United States|U.S.]] [[United States Secretary of the Interior|Interior Secretary]] [...
30: *[[1929]] - [[Canada]] and the [[United States]] agree on a plan to preserve [[Niagara Falls]]....
33: ...ent announces its [[Liberty ship]] program with a stated goal of building 200 freighters. Over 2,700 shi... - French Revolution (36529 bytes)
21: ...own, which fiscally exactly equated to the French state, owed considerable debt. During the r駩mes of [[...
25: ...otestants), and promising the convocation of the Estates-General within five years, but also attempted in...
27: ... agreed on [[August 8]], [[1788]] to convene the Estates-General in May [[1789]] — for the first ti...
30: ===The Estates-General of 1789===
31: ...], [[1788]] – [[June 17]], [[1789]], see [[Estates-General of 1789]].'' - Napoleonic Wars (44488 bytes)
13: ...ion). European monarchs found it difficult to reinstate pre-revolutionary [[absolute monarch|absolutism]]...
15: ...casions his intention to create a single European state, and, although Napoleon's defeat set the thought ...
18: ... of mercenaries that sometimes fought for foreign states against their native countries. However, militar...
28: ...taly, Naples and Poland (not including the United States (286,730 total combatants) or the [[Maratha Empi...
41: * [[Prussia]], - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
6: ...he existing institutions of both [[Church]] and [[State]].
31: ...dual being mostly free within the dominion of the state whose role is to provide stability to those natur...
33: ...ex philosophy of the role of the [[nation-state | state]] and its relationship to the individual. The tur...
35: ...e's role is to protect, and not to hold back, the state of nature. This fundamental shift, from a rather ...
55: ...he [[French Revolution]], as well as the [[United States Constitution|American Constitution]] of 1787 and...
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