Around the year 1000, some coastal cities came to self-govern and formed the so-called republics among which Amalfi emerged , Venice , Pisa and Genoa . The maritime republics Their activity was mainly commercial but they also constituted an opportunity for cultural contact between Europe an
The Congress of Vienna took place between November 11, 1814 and June 9, 1815 and reorganized Europe after the Napoleonic Wars. In addition, decisions were taken that affected Brazil, such as the handing over of Guyana to France and the condemnation of trafficking in enslaved persons. The Congress
BART (Jean)(Dunkirk, 1650-1702.) Sailor from a family of merchant navigators. Jean Bart, is a French sailor, born in Dunkirk on October 21, 1650, and died on April 27, 1702. He is the son of Cornil Bart and Catherine Jansen (Jan Bart, pronounced Yann for Jan and the T of Bart, Flemish, as the Dun
On November 6, 1860, a wave of Stupor spread throughout the American states, especially those south of the Mason-Dixon line[1]. Abraham Lincoln, candidate of the very recent Republican Party, had been elected president! Considered by many citizens of the South an anti-slavery revolutionary willing t