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This case was generally taken at the time to have decided that the condition of slavery did not exist under English law in England and Wales. [66] 1773 Portugal: A new decree by the Marquis of Pombal, signed by the king Dom José, emancipates fourth-generation slaves [58] and every child born to an enslaved mother after the decree was published ...
A Short History of Germany. New York: Macmillan – via HathiTrust. In two parts: to 1657 + 1658–1914 (fulltext) Eric Solsten, ed. (1996). "Chronology of Important Events". Germany: A Country Study. US Library of Congress Country Studies. Washington DC. ISBN 978-0-7881-8179-5. {}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher "Germany".
The German Confederation and its Diet came into existence as a result of the Congress of Vienna in 1815 after the defeat of Napoleon. The original task was to create a new constitutional structure for Germany after the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire eight years before. The princes of the German states wanted to keep their sovereignty ...
The history of slavery spans many cultures, nationalities, and religions from ancient times to the present day. Likewise, its victims have come from many different ethnicities and religious groups. The social, economic, and legal positions of slaves have differed vastly in different systems of slavery in different times and places. [1]
This newer scholarship has demonstrated the importance of the merchant classes of the Hanseatic cities and the industrial leadership (the latter particularly important in the Rhineland) in the ongoing development of the Second Empire. [115] Additional studies of different groups in Wilhelmine Germany have all contributed to a new view of the ...
The painting Germania, possibly by Philipp Veit, hung inside the Frankfurt parliament, the first national parliament in German history. The German revolutions of 1848–1849 (German: Deutsche Revolution 1848/1849), the opening phase of which was also called the March Revolution (German: Märzrevolution), were initially part of the Revolutions of 1848 that broke out in many European countries.
Heinrich Lübke's resignation (1968/69) is a special case: he announced in October 1968 that he would resign with effect from June 30, 1969, in order to enable the Federal Convention to be held before the start of the Bundestag election campaign in the fall of that year. Since the resignation was announced about nine months in advance, the ...
Map of the North German Confederation. Prussia with its provinces are shown in blue.. The North German Confederation (German: Norddeutscher Bund ⓘ) [1] was initially a German military alliance established in August 1866 under the leadership of the Kingdom of Prussia, which was transformed in the subsequent year into a confederated state (a de facto federal state) that existed from July 1867 ...