6 Interesting Short History You Should Know [ 1240 - 1777 ]

Опубликовано: 14 Январь 2025
на канале: HISTORY BOX

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6 December 1240: Mongols under Batu Khan occupy and destroy Kiev; out of 50,000 people in the city only 2,000 survive.

2 January 1492: The last Emir of Granada surrenders to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, completing the Reconquista. With the Moors being fully driven from the peninsula, Spain was once again in Spanish hands after about 8 centuries of Islamic occupation.

Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden from 1611 to 1632, bids farewell to his wife Maria as he departs for military campaigns during the Thirty Year's War.

Painting of John III Sobieski, the victor of the Battle of Khotyn, by Andrzej Stech. At the Battle of Khotyn in November 1673, the forces of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth under John Sobieski defeated Ottoman Empire forces led by Hussain Pasha.

November 1700, Russian forces surrendering to Charles XII of Sweden after the Battle of Narva during the Great Northern War.

3 January 1777: General George Washington's army defeats British forces at the Battle of Princeton, New Jersey, during the American Revolutionary War.