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The Leiden gunpowder disaster was an event in which a ship carrying hundreds of barrels of black powder exploded in the town of Leiden in the Netherlands on 12 January 1807. The disaster killed 151 people and destroyed over 200 buildings in the town.
Louis Frederick II (13 April 1793 – 28 April 1807) [8] Friedrich Günther (28 April 1807 – 28 June 1867) [9] Schwarzburg-Sondershausen. Günther Friedrich Karl I (14 October 1794 – 19 August 1835) Principality of Lippe. Leopold II (5 November 1802 – 1 January 1851) [10] Principality of Reuss-Greiz. Heinrich XIII (28 June 1800 – 29 ...
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This article provides a list of wars occurring between 1800 and 1899.Conflicts of this era include the Napoleonic Wars in Europe, the American Civil War in North America, the Taiping Rebellion in Asia, the Paraguayan War in South America, the Zulu War in Africa, and the Australian frontier wars in Oceania.
In 1807, East Frisia and Jever were added to the kingdom. In 1809, after the Walcheren Campaign, Holland had to surrender all territories south of the River Rhine to France. Also in 1809, Dutch forces fighting on the French side participated in defeating the anti-Bonapartist German rebellion led by Ferdinand von Schill, at the Battle of Stralsund.
The Oxford Handbook of Modern German History (2011), 862 pp; 35 essays by specialists; Germany since 1760 excerpt; Wilson, Peter H. Europe's Tragedy: A New History of the Thirty Years War (2009) Wunder, Heide. He is the sun, she is the moon: Women in early modern Germany (Harvard UP, 1998).
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Location of the Kingdom of Westphalia within the Confederation of the Rhine in 1808. The Kingdom of Westphalia was created by Napoleon in 1807 by merging territories ceded by the Kingdom of Prussia in the Peace of Tilsit, among them the region of the Duchy of Magdeburg west of the Elbe river, the Brunswick-Lüneburg territories of Hanover and Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, and the Electorate of Hesse.