Henry VI of England, sad man and king
/ en wikipedia.org Henry was born in 1421, and became King of England at the age of one. He had two reigns, due to the Wars of the Roses. The first lasted from [...]
Latest news on the books
/thehealthjunction.wordpress.com Oyez! Oyez! Latest news on the books! All three volumes of Jeremy Taylor's brief chapters on world history, written under the name of Dean Swift for the website www.general-history.com and now in [...]
Who said it?
An auctioneer / joystiq.com Our first slightly intellectual quiz for the year 2015 presents the published words of an eccentric and wit, male, and the only clue to his identity is that he [...]
The army of British India
/ masterdraper.blogspot.com Also known as the ‘Indian Army’, this was a British – officered military force in India; the other ranks, corporals, sergeants and warrant officers were recruited from the native population. Even [...]
Hohenstaufen & Hohenzollern Dynasties (further notes)
What remains of the castle at Staufen / flickrhivemind.net Brief details of these two important German dynasties have appeared before on in General-History.com. Here are some additional notes: The Hohenstaufen royal dynasty got [...]
Some Alexander Popes
Alexander VI / listverse.com These four Italians and one Spaniard made a contribution to the history of the Catholic Church, positive or negative according to your view and that of historians. Each chose [...]
Some Clement Popes
Clement XIV suppressed the Jesuits / en.wikipedia.org Six Italian and one French, the following pontificates flourished (or not depending on their history) during the fourteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: Clement V (Bertrand [...]
Some Urban Popes
Maffeo Barberini painted by Caravaggio / en.wikipedia.org Three French popes and one Italian, dating from the eleventh century, the thirteenth, fourteenth and finally the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, form up for inspection in [...]
Some Innocent Popes
Innocent IV / ztopics.com From the twelfth century to the eighteenth century several Popes called Innocent stand out: they are:- Innocent III (Lotario dei Conti di Signi). He was Pope from 1198 to [...]
Latin American revolutionaries: Zapata & Villa
Emilio Zapata /en.wikipedia.org Emiliano Zapata was a Mexican revolutionary, son of a peasant of mixed (meztizo) blood. At around twelve he became an agricultural worker, then entered politics by arousing the local peasants [...]
New France & the North American fur trade
Fur trading with Native Americans in Canada / herbmuseum.ca The name 'New France', which sounds rather arbitrary, was the name given to all the North American territories France claimed to own between 1524 [...]
The Treaty of Nerchinsk
The Treaty is signed / epicworldhistory,blogspot.com Before the seventeenth century China had been almost a myth; a legendary giant land in the Far East, barely visited by Europeans, a subject for dreams. But [...]
The Nobel Peace Prize
Yasser Arafat, one of the winners of this award / the guardian.com In the case of a suitable candidate being found, this is an international prize, awarded annually, to a person or an [...]
Robert Owen, a founding father of Socialism
/ en.wikipedia.org Though Owen was born in 1771, a son of a successful maker of saddles for horses and mules, he started work in a cotton mill in Manchester at the usual age [...]
The Piast Dynasty
King Wenceslas was a Piast / storynory.com Here is a strange and indeed rather wonderful thing; the Piasts were the first rulers of Poland, princes descended from a Polish legend called Piast (alive [...]
The Compilation of the Laws of the Kings of the Indies
First volume of the Compilation / ww7.uc.cl This was published in four volumes in 1681 in Madrid; the title in Spanish is Recopilación de las leyes de los Reinos de las Indias, rather [...]
Eduard Shevardnazde
/ telegraph.co.uk This politician came from Georgia, a Soviet state until democratization. He was born in 1928, did well in history studies at the Kutaisi Institute of Education and joined the Communist party [...]
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