In France, the estates general were an assembly convened by the king from the Middle Ages to resolve political or financial crises. While the convocation of the representatives of the three orders (clergy, nobility and third estate) had not taken place since 1614, they met in 1789 by King Louis XVI
In 1807, France and Spain signed the Treaty of Fontainebleau, which agreed to divide Portugal (an ally of England) between the two powers. Controlled the sea by the English and the Portuguese, the only viable option was for the French troops to cross the Peninsula, so numerous French military contin
Long before the Medellin Conference (1968), where a group of Latin American bishops laid the foundations for what we know today as Liberation Theology ”, there was a group of Dominican friars settled on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola who sowed the seed of said theology denouncing the encomienda
Elected King of Poland, Stanislaus I Leszczyński was forced to give up his throne in 1709, but regained it on the death of Augustus II (1733). If he is supported by France, Spain, Sardinia and Bavaria, his rival Augustus III (son of the deceased) receives for his part the support of Russia, Austria