Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes, who defeated the Aztec Empire and colonized large parts of Mexico, dies of pleurisy. 1697: ...

the military defeat against Prussia in 1870 led to the downfall of the Second Empire. Napoleon III was known as Louis Napoleon Bonaparte. On November 4, 1848, the fledgling French Second Republic ...

On December 2, 1851, Louis Bonaparte, a nephew of the long-dead Napoleon, seized the reins of the French state and declared himself emperor ... where he remained until France’s 1848 revolution, when ...

The acclaimed artist Stan Douglas will be the subject of a major survey organized by the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard ...

The Sacred Lands in Jungle Prada suffered damage after the recent hurricanes. Restoration is important to tell the story of ...

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Political conditions in the Holy Roman Empire - known in Germany as the ‘Holy Roman Empire ... Reforms in the states of the French-occupied Confederation of the Rhine and a new awareness of the ...

In total, there are the remains of 81 people inside the Pantheon, with the majority interred during Napoleon’s reign of the First French Empire. Pantheon is at Pl ... Fontaine Saint-Sulpice between ...

The idea first spread to England through Queen Victoria's mother—but it was Victoria's consort Prince Albert who brought them into the mainstream in 1848. Hulton Archive//Getty Images The 1848 ...

Azerbaijan has, for example, founded the Baku Initiative Group, which brings together 14 political movements across the former French Empire in the name of decolonization, and built ties with local ...

France had the second largest empire in the world after Britain, but one with very different origins and purposes. Over more than four centuries, the French empire explained itself in many different ...