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Fact |
Category |
Date |
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31 |
King John signed the Magna Carta in 1215, limiting the power of the king. |
History > European |
01/30/09 |
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32 |
King Louis XIV's financial advisor was Jean-Baptiste Colbert. |
History > European |
05/20/08 |
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33 |
King Louis XVIII was forced to sign the Constitutional Charter of 1814 by the Congress of Vienna in order to be restored to the throne of France. |
History > European |
02/06/09 |
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34 |
Lenin, a Russian revolutionary and leader, was born as Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov in 1870. |
History > European |
04/05/09 |
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35 |
Louis Napoleon became the President of the Second Republic of France after an election in 1848. |
History > European |
02/07/09 |
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36 |
Louis XVIII and Charles X were brothers of Louis XVI, but both men died without an heir, which ended the Bourbon dynasty. |
History > European |
02/06/09 |
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37 |
Louis-Philippe of France was forced to abdicate the French throne after the February 1848 Revolution; he escaped to England and renamed himself "Mr. Smith". |
History > European |
02/08/09 |
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38 |
Luddites often destroyed machines during the Industrial Revolution, for they felt the machines were leaving them without work. |
History > European |
02/11/09 |
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39 |
Michael I of the Romanov Dynasty ruled from 1613 to 1645. |
History > European |
02/27/09 |
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40 |
Michael Romanov was the first tsar in a dynasty that would rule Russia for 300 years. |
History > European |
12/29/08 |
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41 |
Nazi Party leader Hitler and other heads unsuccessfully attempted to overthrow the Weimar Republic on November 9, 1923 in the Beer Hall Putsch. |
History > European |
04/01/09 |
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42 |
Nicholas Copernicus was a Polish scientist who wrote "On the Revolution of Heavenly Bodies", but didn't publish it until 1543 for fear of angering the Catholic Church. |
History > European |
12/28/08 |
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43 |
Nikita Khrushchev believed that peaceful co-existence between communist and capitalist states was possible. |
History > European |
04/23/09 |
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44 |
Peter II of Russia ruled from 1727 to 1730. |
History > European |
03/03/09 |
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45 |
Peter the Great's palace, Peterhof, was modeled after Louis XIV's Versailles. |
History > European |
12/27/08 |
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