Category: European history

Europe 1871

Unification of Germany and Fall of Paris

On 18 January 1871, King William of Prussia...

Europe 1871

Treaty of Frankfurt

With the end of the Franco-Prussian War,...

Europe 1878

Great Eastern Crisis

The 1870s saw increasing dissent in the...

Europe 1878

Treaty of San Stefano

The Russo-Turkish War of 1877-8 began slowly,...

Europe 1878

Aftermath of the Great Eastern Crisis

The Russian victory over Turkey alarmed the...

Europe 1884

Scramble for Africa

In 1881 France alarmed Italy by seizing...

Europe 1894

Franco-Russian Alliance

German attempts to keep France isolated by...

Europe 1898

Britain's Splendid Isolation

At the close of the Nineteenth Century,...

Europe 1904

Entente Cordiale

The Anglo-French rivalry had been a constant...

Europe 1906

Tangier Crisis

Germany viewed the Entente Cordiale as a...

Europe 1908

Bosnian Crisis

In October 1908, a new round in the...

Europe 1911

Agadir Crisis

In 1911, France sent troops to suppress a...

Europe 1912

Italo-Turkish War

In October 1911 Italy invaded the Ottoman...

Europe 1913

First Balkan War

Seeing how weak the Ottoman Empire was in its...

Europe 1913

Second Balkan War

Bulgaria had gained much territory in the war...