In 1448 Dracula managed to briefly seize the Wallachian throne with Turkish support. Within two months Hunyadi forced Dracula to surrender the throne and flee to his cousin, the Prince of Moldavia, while Hunyadi once again placed Vladislav II on the Wallachian
Ivan the “Not So” Terrible Ivan IV, know as Ivan the Terrible, is most known for his brutal ruling and centralizing Russia. He was born in Moscow on August 25, 1530, the oldest son of Vasilij III. Ivan’s father, Vasilij Glinsky, died when he was only three and his mother took the throne. His mother, Yelena Glinskaya was leading the territory that noble family owned, but it soon capsized into intrigue, and violence as rival nobles fought over who would rule Glinsky Family. Yelena died in 1538 and misrule continued.
His last aim was the succession. Henry would need a male heir so as to secure the throne for the Tudors. The first of Henry’s aims to be completed was to start the differentiation between himself and his father. In April 1509, just as he had become ruler, he had two of his father’s most powerful men arrested; Edmund Dudley and Richard Empson, and a year later the two were executed. Henry had done this so he could abolish the Council Learned in Law, meaning that he could cancel 175 bonds his father had put in place with his Nobles.
The progress of the empire was explosive. In 1453, the Sultan Mohamad II conquered Constantinople (renamed Istanbul) putting an end to the Eastern Roman Empire. The Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent conquered modern Yugoslavia in 1521, and conquered Hungary after his victory at the battle of Mohacs in 1526. However, he failed to take Vienna after winter forced an end to his siege in 1529. The Ottomans went on to take Transylvania and Wallachia as well.
The Turks laid siege to Vienna but he successfully repelled the Turks; which was the last attempt by the Ottoman Empire to take control of Eastern Europe. (Chapter Outlines ) The war ended with the Peace of Karlowitz, which ratified Habsburg conquered all of Hungary and Transylvania by 1699. (Chapter Outlines ) In the Austrian empire after the Thirty Years' War, the Austrian Habsburgs turned inward and eastward to unify their holdings. The Habsburgs replaced the Bohemian Czech nobility with their own warriors. (Chapter Outlines ) The Habsburg possessions consisted of Austria, Bohemia, and Hungary, which were joined in a fragile union.
This created a stir among Slavic people of southern Europe and the Russian Tsar, who opposed the annexation. In February 1912, Princip took part in protest demonstrations against the Sarajevo authorities, for which he was expelled from school. Following his expulsion, he moved to Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. When he was in Belgrade in 1912 and 1913, preparing for his exams at the First Belgrade Gymnasium, Princip's sole friend was Momčilo Nastasijević, who grew up to become a poet and dramatist. In 1912, many Serbs were being mobilized for the First Balkan War.
Commodus Childhood * Was born on the 31 of august AD 161 at Lanuvium * Commodus was one of fourteen children * He was the only one to survive childhood * He had a twin brother that died * He was made caeser at the age of five, to rule alongside his dad (AD 166) Kind of like a junior emperor. * His father was Marcus Aurelius * In AD 177, at the age of 16 he was made Augustus by Marcus Aurelius making him a joint emperor * Even though he was emperor at AD 177, everyone saw Marcus Aurelius as the true emperor * “Commodus indeed led the troops in the wars on the Danube together with his father from AD 178, until the death of Marcus Aurelius in AD 180” (www.roman-empire.net) * “His father died, possibly
Why did the crown and parliament fall out in 1625? In March 1625 Charles father, the King dies leaving only Charles to succeed the throne of the Three Kingdoms. Charles falls out with parliament for three main reasons, finance, foreign policy and favorites, all had previously harassed James, and were now passed on to Charles. Although not yet coronate, only a few months later he assembles Parliament for the first time, meeting against the background of the outbreak of plague in London. His main objective for calling Parliament was to raise money to go to war with Spain, which he believed would indirectly help his sister Elizabeth and brother-in-law to regain the Palatinate.
After the death of Alexis I in 1676, the succeeding throne was left to Fyodor III, Peter’s half-brother, from his father’s first marriage with Maria Miloslavsky. However, Fyodor III died shortly after his succession to the throne, which resulted in a power struggle between the Miloslavsky and Naryshkin family. With the support of nobles and the Russian Orthodox Church, nine-year-old Peter was proclaimed tsar in April of 1682. Because of his young age, Peters mother Natalia Naryshkin became the regent; while some of her family members had gained many public official
His forces terrorized both halves of the empire but failed in the East, due to the high walls of Constantinople. His forces advanced past Rome but famine and disease kept them from conquering the city. Attila died in 453 AD. The last emperor was German forces ousted a 14-year boy named Romulus Augustulus in 476