The Regency Period began with the abdication of D. Pedro I, in 1831, and lasted until 1840, when the Majority Coup allowed D. Pedro II to assume the throne at the age of 14. The Regency Period it began after D. Pedro I abdicated the Brazilian throne in 1831. As his son could not assume the throne b
To restore the prestige of royalty and feed the countryside of Flanders, Philippe le Bel accepted in 1314 a series of fiscal, financial and monetary reforms prepared by Marigny. On November 24, however, while hunting in the forest of Pont-Sainte Maxence, the king was struck with a kind of paralysis
In order not to go mad, Selkirk used to read aloud the Bible he had been able to keep • WIKIMEDIACOMMONS By anchoring his Duke ships and Duchess near the island of Más a Tierra, their captain Woodes Rogers had no idea that the next day he would see a man come out of the forest dressed in goatski
The Celts heralded the end of the harvest season and the beginning of the dark time of winter with the ancestral festival of Samhain. According to their belief, the gateway to the Otherworld opens to Samhain. The border between the realm of the dead and the realm of the living is particularly thin o