The Inca Empire in Peru was conquered by Francisco Pizarro in 1532. Pizarro and his men arrived in Peru in 1531 and quickly gained the support of the native people who were discontent with the Inca rule. Pizarro and his men defeated the Incas in a series of battles and captured their capital city, Cusco, in 1533. The Spanish Empire then ruled over Peru for the next 300 years.
The impeachment of Dilma Rousseff took place on August 31, 2016 and was the second in the history of the Brazilian Republic. Dilma Vana Rousseff , president of the Federative Republic of Brazil since January 2011 (re-elected in the 2014 elections), was removed from office on August 31, 2016 through
Semyon Danilovich Nomokonov was one of the best Soviet snipers of World War II. But it didnt start out that way... Nomokonov was born in eastern Siberia in 1900. He was a native of the small Evenk tribe, which today numbers around 70-75,000 souls in Russia, China and Mongolia. Everyone in his fam
The armistice between the Allies and Germany ended the fighting in World War I. The signing of the armistice took place at 5 am on November 11, 1918 in a wagon located on a siding in the forest of Compiègne (Rethondes, France) between the Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Forces , the Frenchman Ferdi
The battleship Potemkin entered service in 1903 with the Black Sea Fleet. She was a typical battleship of the time, equipped with four 12in (305 mm) guns, mounted in two twin turrets, one in the bow and one in the stern. It also had 16 152 mm guns. 14 of 76 mm. six of 47 mm. and five torpedo tube