Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The mayor of Strasbourg, Philippe-Frédéric de Dietrich, was decapitated by guillotine in December 1793. Women were not allowed to wear traditional costumes and Christian worship was forbidden. [18] Strasbourg's status as a free city was revoked by the French Revolution. Enragés, such as Eulogius Schneider, ran the city. During this time ...
1805 – Napoleon in Strasbourg (also in 1806 and 1809). 1821 – Théâtre Municipal opens. 1823 – 5 December: Franz Liszt, aged 12, gives his first concert on French soil. 1831 – Georg Büchner in Strasbourg (until 1833) 1832 – Société des Amis des arts founded. [21] 1836 – Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte in Strasbourg
Strasbourg is considered the legislative and democratic capital of the European Union, while Brussels is considered the executive and administrative capital and Luxembourg the judiciary and financial capital. [76] Strasbourg is the seat of the following organisations, among others: Central Commission for Navigation on the Rhine (since 1920)
The siege of Strasbourg took place during the Franco-Prussian War, and resulted in the French surrender of the fortress on 28 September 1870.. After the German victory at Wörth, troops from the Grand Duchy of Baden under Prussian General August von Werder were detached to capture Strasbourg with the help of two Prussian Landwehr divisions which had been guarding the North Sea coast.
Strasbourg; Mannschaftslager. Cassel (Niederzwehren). Held 20,000 POWs. Constance. All officers and men for internment in Switzerland are concentrated here. Held 15,000. Deutsch Gabel Camp for merchant seamen under Austrian administration. Grafenwöhr Camp and Lazarett (Bavarian Corps) Gleiwitz. Located in a cavalry barracks.
This monument commemorates the advance of the 152nd French Infantry Division on 19 August 1914 and marks the furthest point reached by the French army in Alsace during the 1914-1918 war.
Name In office Party Ref. 1 Baron Philippe-Frédéric de Dietrich: 16 March 1790 22 August 1792 2 Bernard-Frédéric de Turckheim: 6 December 1792 18 January 1793 3 Pierre-François Monet
German revolution of 1918–1919 (post ww1 part) Russian Civil War (only parts related with World war I) Estonian War of Independence (1918-1920) Soviet westward offensive of 1918–1919; Latvian War of Independence (1918-1920) Soviet westward offensive of 1918–1919; Lithuanian Wars of Independence (1918-1920) Soviet westward offensive of ...