Battle of the White Mountain
It was a cold winter day, November 8 in the year of the Lord 1620. At the foot of the White...
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Pragmatic Sanction
At school it is usually taught that the “Pragmatic Sanction” only served to secure...
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House of Hanover
With the Act of Settlement in 1701, the English Parliament created the basis for the fact that the...
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Penance Walk to Canossa
In 1073 the monk Hildebrand was appointed as pope Gregory VII, not by the cardinals, but by...
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Austro-Hungarian Compromise
In the west a strong France and in the north a finely tuned system of small German states –...
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The Fuggers
Long before the 20th century there was a pan-European economic network, the threads of which ran...
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Duke of Enghien
“That was worse than a crime, that was a mistake.” The one who said this was not...
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Peace of Westphalia
A war, thirty years and five months, that devastated Germany, inflicted terrible suffering on the...
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Foreword
Hermann Hesse
Hermann Hesse, the misunderstood dreamer, who always started a new journey.
