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The word "pax" together with the Latin name of an empire or nation is used to refer to a period of peace or at least stability, enforced by a hegemon, a so-called Pax imperia ("Imperial peace"). The following is a list of periods of regional peace, sorted by alphabetical order. The corresponding hegemon is stated in parentheses.
Long Peace" is a term for the unprecedented historical period of relative global stability following the end of World War II in 1945 to the present day. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The period of the Cold War (1947–1991) was marked by the absence of major wars between the superpowers of the period, the United States and the Soviet Union .
The truce was the result of a decade of failed peace negotiations and inaugurated a thirteen years peace, the longest period of sustained peace during the Hundred Years' War. During the years following the truce, Richard reneged on his agreement to assist in ending the schism, leading the French to unilaterally withdraw from the obedience of ...
Early modern period – The chronological limits of this period are open to debate. It emerges from the Late Middle Ages (c. 1500), demarcated by historians as beginning with the fall of Constantinople in 1453, in forms such as the Italian Renaissance in the West, the Ming dynasty in the East, and the rise of the Aztecs in the New World.
Historic enlargement of the EU and its predecessors. Pax Europaea (English: the European peace – after the historical Pax Romana) is the period of relative peace experienced by Europe following World War II, in which there were notably few international conflicts or wars between European states.
The oldest known surviving peace treaty in the world, the Egyptian–Hittite peace treaty preserved at the Temple of Amun in Karnak. This list of treaties contains known agreements, pacts, peaces, and major contracts between states, armies, governments, and tribal groups.
Mar. 16—The Manhattan Project in New Mexico was front and center in 1945. In nanoseconds, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan at the end of World War II changed the nature of warfare ...
Warring States period: 453 BC: 223 BC: 230 years Muslim conquests of Afghanistan: 642: 870: 228 years Polish-Russian Wars: 1577: 1794: 217 years, 10 months, 2 weeks and 1 day Byzantine–Ottoman wars: 1265: 1479: 214 years [citation needed] Polish–Teutonic War: 1308: 1521: 213 years Roman conquest of the Iberian Peninsula: 218 BC: 19 BC: 199 ...