The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, on 28 June 1914, in Sarajevo, the provincial capital of Bosnia-Herzegovina (formally annexed by Austria-Hungary in 1908), was the trigger that set off a chain of events leading to the outbreak of World War I.
The small kingdom of Denmark has a military tradition inversely proportional to its size. However, during the Second World War the army was, for political reasons, in its worst condition. German forces invaded Denmark on April 9, 1940. The army, which the progressive government of the country had
Francoism was never a democratic system and, consequently, it never generated a set of laws that served to manage politics, social relations, the economy, etc., from a perspective assimilable to parliamentary democracies; It did not have, therefore, a constitution that was the backbone of the politi
On the first day of December 1912, the weather had improved. The Greek destroyers were still patrolling the entrance to the Dardanelles straits, awaiting the exit of the Turkish fleet. The information said that the Turkish fleet was preparing to leave its shelter. On December 1st, the Greek destr
Entry taken from the books From Covadonga to Tamarón and From war to unification. The case of Fernando I de León is a paradigmatic example of the interrelationship between the peninsular medieval kingdoms and domains. Born as an infant of the kingdom of Pamplona, he served as count of Castile a