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Fact |
Category |
Date |
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16 |
Peter the Great's palace, Peterhof, was modeled after Louis XIV's Versailles. |
History > European |
12/27/08 |
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17 |
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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18 |
Sir Isaac Newton is considered the Father of Calculus. |
History > European |
12/28/08 |
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19 |
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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20 |
The St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre took place from August 24 to August 30 in 1572; the massacre began during the wedding of Margaret de Valois and the future King Henry IV. |
History > European |
12/29/08 |
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21 |
The Defenestration of Prague occured when some Catholic nobles were shoved out of a window and onto a pile of manure; it also signaled the start of the Bohemian Phase of the Thirty Years' War. |
History > European |
12/30/08 |
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22 |
The Concordat of Bologna gave King Francis I of France the right to appoint benefices, which allowed France to decide who was to lead the Catholic Church in France. |
History > European |
12/30/08 |
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23 |
Jean-Paul Marat, a member of the Jacobins, was assassinated by Charlotte Corday on July 13, 1793. |
History > European |
01/09/09 |
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24 |
Political instability, Enlightenment influence, and national bankruptcy were three of the many causes of the French Revolution. |
History > European |
01/12/09 |
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25 |
The French Estates General was a legislative assembly consisting of the First Estate (the clergy), the Second Estate (the nobility), and the Third Estate (the commoners/everyone else). |
History > European |
01/12/09 |
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26 |
The Jacobin Club closed after Maximilian Robespierre was beheaded. |
History > European |
01/12/09 |
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27 |
The Cult of the Supreme Being, created by Maximilian Robespierre, was a religion based on deism. |
History > European |
01/13/09 |
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28 |
The Napoleonic Code was based on earlier French laws as well as Roman laws. |
History > European |
01/16/09 |
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29 |
The Quadruple Alliance of March 1813 was composed of Russia, Prussia, Austria, and Great Britain. |
History > European |
01/16/09 |
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30 |
Charles Fourier was born on April 7, 1772 as François Marie Charles Fourier. |
History > European |
01/18/09 |
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