Milanese Prelude
Louis XII, like his predecessor (Charles VIII, who died in 1498), had dynastic claims for the crowns of Naples and Milan (he presented...
Independence movement
IRB organizations originated in Ireland, Great Britain in the 1860s and 1870s, as well as among Irish immigrants to the USA Canada, Australia,...
The restoration of royal power has little changed the unhappy position of the Catholic Irish. Although Charles II stopped religious persecution, the Protestants retained...
In the First World War (1914–1918), the territory of Belarus once again became the scene of active hostilities: in 1915 the German territories occupied...
As a result of the First Partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1772), Vitebsk and Polotsk were ceded to Russia. The Mogilev province was formed...
Landsknecht were German hired infantry of the Renaissance. The term was first introduced into use around 1470 by Peter van Hagenbach, the chronicler of...
Typography was invented twice: once in China and Korea and in medieval Europe. In China, printing was invented, according to some data (Julien, "Documents...
