Today the Cossacks are regarded as the archetype of the Russian being. But the history show us a completely different...
History
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 Mountain, just outside the...
Pragmatic Sanction
At school it is usually taught that the "Pragmatic Sanction" only served to secure Maria Theresa's throne. In reality,...
House of Hanover
With the Act of Settlement in 1701, the English Parliament created the basis for the fact that the succession to the...
Penance Walk to Canossa
In 1073 the monk Hildebrand was appointed as pope Gregory VII, not by the cardinals, but by acclamation of the Roman...
Austro-Hungarian Compromise
In the west a strong France and in the north a finely tuned system of small German states - so the Habsburgs only had...
The Fuggers
Long before the 20th century there was a pan-European economic network, the threads of which ran together in the hands...
Duke of Enghien
"That was worse than a crime, that was a mistake." The one who said this was not just anyone, but one of...
Peace of Westphalia
A war, thirty years and five months, that devastated Germany, inflicted terrible suffering on the country and caused...