The Timetables of History: A Horizontal Linkage of People and Events, Based on Werner Stein's KulturfahrplanThe Timetables of History spans millennia of human history. Unlike any other reference volume, this book gives a sweeping overview of the making of the contemporary world by mapping out at a glance what was happening simultaneously, from the dawn of history to the present day. |
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... Russia against Turkey In Treaty of Wusterhausen Prussia guarantees Pragmatic Sanction Span . siege of Gibraltar ; war between England and Spain Catherine , Russ . Czarina , d .; Peter II , grandson of Peter the Great , becomes Czar of ...
... Russia against Turkey In Treaty of Wusterhausen Prussia guarantees Pragmatic Sanction Span . siege of Gibraltar ; war between England and Spain Catherine , Russ . Czarina , d .; Peter II , grandson of Peter the Great , becomes Czar of ...
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... Russia Generals Gneisenau and Scharnhorst resign Napoleon , crossing Niemen River , enters Russia June 24 ; crosses Viliya River , defeats Russians at Smolensk and Borodino , and enters Moscow ; he begins to retreat from Moscow Oct. 19 ...
... Russia Generals Gneisenau and Scharnhorst resign Napoleon , crossing Niemen River , enters Russia June 24 ; crosses Viliya River , defeats Russians at Smolensk and Borodino , and enters Moscow ; he begins to retreat from Moscow Oct. 19 ...
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... Russia ; first meeting of Duma in May ; Duma dissolved in July Joao Franco becomes Prime Minister of Spain ; Giovanni Giolitti of Italy ; Peter Stolypin of Russia Alfred Dreyfus rehabilitated Edward VII of England and William II of ...
... Russia ; first meeting of Duma in May ; Duma dissolved in July Joao Franco becomes Prime Minister of Spain ; Giovanni Giolitti of Italy ; Peter Stolypin of Russia Alfred Dreyfus rehabilitated Edward VII of England and William II of ...
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ARTS MUSIC GROWTH DAILY LIFE | 37 |
Wooden coffins and wooden tools used in the burial places of the Alemanni | 74 |
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