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Philip´s III reing lasted from 1598 to 1621 and he was married with his second cousin, thus giving Spain its greatest territorial conquest. Hi was known as "The Pious One". -
Galileo Galilei was a famous astronomer. That proves the orbits of the Earth around the Sun in 1610 and discovered many stars and exposed them as new stars or even planets or moons. And defended the theory of copernicus -
The Thirty Years' War was a war fought in Central Europe between 1618 and 1648, in which most of the great European powers of the time took part. -
Philip IV nicknamed "The Great" or "The Planet King" married two women during his reign from 1621 to 1640. He was king of 4 countries and Duke of Milan. -
In 1648 France, the Holy Roman Empire, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Denmark and Switzerland signed the peace treaty of Westphalia in Münster. -
Charles II nicknamed "The Bewitched" although he had no descendants married Maria Luisa of Orleans and Mariana of Neoburg. During 1665 to 1700 -
The Spanish War of Succesion was an international conflict over the succession to the Spanish throne after the death of Charles II, which lasted from 1703 to 1713. -
The treaty of Utrecht was a peace between Spain and England signing in Utrecht, that finisesd with the Spanish War of Succesion. -
Luis XIV murió el 1 de septiembre de 1715 de gangrena, pocos días antes de su septuagésimo séptimo cumpleaños y tras setenta y dos años de reinado.In Vesalles -
A project for the systematisation of knowledge that brought together some of the best intellectuals of its time, with the intention of spreading the principles of universality, truth, humanity, autonomy of reason and secularism. -
It was a series of international conflicts between early 1756 and late 1763 to establish control over Silesia and for colonial supremacy in North America and India. -
The first industrial revolution was the beginning of the use of steam power and the mechanisation of production. -
It was the war that pitted the original Thirteen British Colonies in North America against the Kingdom of Great Britain. -
France was the first ally of the new United States since the Revolutionary War through a military support treaty signed in 1778.
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It all began with a crisis in Louis XVI's royal finances. The Crown of France, i.e. the kingdom of France, was sinking under debt, which pushed the king to want to increase taxes, despite the sure opposition of the so-called Third Estate. -
It was a social and political conflict, with several periods of violence, that convulsed France and, by extension of its implications, other nations in Europe, pitting supporters and opponents of the system known as the Ancien Régime against each other. -
The causes of the French Revolution are rooted in the lack of individual liberties, extreme poverty and inequality that existed in France during the reign of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. -
The society of the so-called Ancien Régime was triestamental in character and lacked social mobility. The privileged classes were the first and second estates, composed of the clergy and the nobility respectively. -
Fear turned to anger, and bands of peasants set about attacking castles and abbeys, carrying off grain and burning archives and documents. -
The nobility, formed by knights and their families. Function, defend the rest of the population. The Clergy, Formed by monks and priests. Function to pray for the salvation of the people. -
El Reinado del Terror, o simplemente el Terror (la Terreur), fue un período culminante de violencia respaldada por el Estado durante la Revolución francesa (1789-99), que vio las ejecuciones públicas y los asesinatos en masa de miles de "sospechosos" contrarrevolucionarios entre septiembre de 1793 y julio de 1794. -
The nobility and the clergy demanded a vote by estate, which ensured them a majority without the need for consensus. The Third Estate called for head-to-head voting, which allowed for more equality in voting, and open debates. -
The Oath of the Ball Game was a pledge of union presented on 20 June 1789 among the 577 deputies of the third estate not to secede until France had a constitution, in the face of pressure from the French King Louis XVI. -
On 14 July 1789, the Bastille, a fortress and political prison symbolising the oppression of the French Ancien Régime, was attacked by a mob of mainly sans-culottes, or lower classes. -
On 26 August 1789, the French National Constituent Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, becoming a fundamental legacy of the French Revolution; it has universal value, and formed the basis of the United Nations Declaration in 1948. -
La monarquía constitucional es una forma de Estado en la que existe separación de poderes, donde el monarca ostenta el Poder Ejecutivo nombrando al gobierno, mientras que el Poder Legislativo, lo ejerce una asamblea o parlamento, habitualmente electo por los ciudadanos.
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There was a privileged class that included the nobility and the clergy, and a non-privileged class that included the rest of the social strata: the bourgeoisie, artisans, peasants and marginal groups. -
He proclaimed the Republic in September 1792, and in January ordered the execution of Louis XVI. -
enfrentó los momentos más críticos del proceso revolucionario y a los grupos contrarrevolucionarios por lo que estableció el Comité de Salvación Pública, el Comité de Seguridad Nacional y el Tribunal revolucionario, como parte de un régimen basado en el Terror para reprimir a los . -
The king Louis XVI was executed with thw guillotine by the jacobin leader, Robbespiere.
Because of his attempt to escape, from the evil of the kingdom -
The Directory was the government of France from 2 November 1795 to 9 November 1799, a period covering the last four years of the French Revolution (1789-1799). -
Edward Jenner achieved worldwide fame as the inventor of the smallpox vaccine, whose controversial research in this field was destined to change the history of medicine forever. -
The bourgeoisie gained importance through the accumulation of capital and property, which often meant that many bourgeois families were ennobled and even gained access to some local political power, especially in the city-states of the time such as Venice or Florence. -
Enlightenment ideals of rationalism and intellectual and religious freedom pervaded the American colonial religious landscape -
Francia es una república semipresidencialista con un jefe del Gobierno el primer ministro designado por el presidente, que es el jefe del Estado elegido por sufragio directo.
