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3 days ago · The short-lived French era was over, superseded by an even shorter Dutch one – the Belgian Revolution would take place in 1830. But the wheels of history kept turning. Victor-Napoleon Bonaparte would later marry Belgian Princess Clementine, daughter of King Leopold II.
3 days ago · Members of both the so-called Petropolis branch of Braganzas (Princes Pedro Gastão and his nephew, Joazinho of Orléans-Braganza) and the more broadly recognised Vassouras line of the Imperial Family led by Prince Luiz Gastão of Orléans-Braganza, participated in the restoration effort, and the Head of the Vassouras branch continues to lead a ...
5 days ago · According to Aztec legend, told in the Codex Ramírez, Huitzilopochtli ordered the Culhua princess to be flayed to become Toci - so she plays an important part in the Aztec migration story and in the eventual founding of Tenochtitlan.
5 days ago · In 1810 the Territory of Orleans consisted of 77,000 people, and statehood proposals were beginning to be heard. When in 1812 the territory petitioned to enter the union, the eastern region now called the Florida Parishes—where the people had rebelled against the Spanish and established the Republic of West Florida—was included.
2 days ago · It was revealed that the Queen altered the royal order of precedence for private occasions, placing the Duchess fourth, after the Queen, Princess Anne and Princess Alexandra.
2 days ago · Come on in and learn something new, Read about the forgotten Creole culture of America. Home brewed mixture of African, French, Spanish, and Native American.
1 day ago · Charles II of Spain [a] (6 November 1661 – 1 November 1700) was King of Spain from 1665 to 1700. The last monarch from the House of Habsburg which had ruled Spain since 1516, he died without children, leading to a European conflict over his successor.
