German vehicle registration plates (German: Kraftfahrzeug-Kennzeichen or, more colloquially, Nummernschilder) are alphanumeric plates in a standardized format, issued officially by the district authorities to motorized vehicles of German residents. The legal requirements for these licence plates are laid down in a federal law titled Verordnung über die Zulassung von …

Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel (Augusta Wilhelmina Louisa; 25 July 1797 – 6 April 1889) was the wife of Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge, the tenth-born child, and seventh son, of George III of the United Kingdom and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.The longest-lived daughter-in-law of George III, she was the maternal grandmother of Mary of Teck, wife of …

Prince Frederick William of Hesse-Kassel was born in Copenhagen on 26 November 1820. He moved to Denmark with his family at the age of three, and grew up there. He attended the university in Bonn, and then began a military career. ... Germany. In 1849 Frederick William joined HMS Cleopatra to train as a midshipman. The Cleopatra was reassigned ...

The German Bundesrat (lit. Federal Council; pronounced [ˈbʊndəsʁaːt]) is a legislative body that represents the sixteen Länder (federated states) of Germany at the federal level (German: Bundesebene).The Bundesrat meets at the former Prussian House of Lords in Berlin.Its second seat is located in the former West German capital of Bonn.. The Bundesrat participates in …

Böblingen was founded by Count Wilhelm von Tübingen-Böblingen in 1253. Württemberg acquired the town in 1357, and on 12 May 1525 one of the bloodiest battles of the German Peasants' War took place in Böblingen. Jörg Truchsess von Waldburg attacked a force of 15,000 armed peasants; 3,000 were killed. By the end of the Thirty Years' War in 1648, the population …

Prince William of Hesse-Kassel (24 December 1787 – 5 September 1867) was the first son of Prince Frederick of Hesse-Kassel and Princess Caroline of Nassau-Usingen. Marriage and children. On 10 November 1810, William was married in Amalienborg Palace to ...

Conrad III of Germany: Second Crusade (1147-1150) Holy Roman Empire. Other Crusaders Emirate of Damascus other Muslim and Pagan entities in East Central Europe, Iberia and the Near East. Victories in East Central Europe and Iberia. Defeat in the Holy Land. Conrad III of Germany: Polish-German War (1157) Holy Roman Empire: Bolesław IV the Curly

Jérôme-Napoléon Bonaparte (born Girolamo Buonaparte; 15 November 1784 – 24 June 1860) was the youngest brother of Napoleon I and reigned as Jerome Napoleon I (formally Hieronymus Napoleon in German), King of Westphalia, between 1807 and 1813.Historian Owen Connelly points to his financial, military, and administrative successes and concludes he was a loyal, …

This is a list of rulers of Hesse (German: Hessen) during the history of Hesse on west-central Germany.These rulers belonged to a dynasty collectively known as the House of Hesse and the House of Brabant, originally the Reginar.Hesse was ruled as a landgraviate, electorate and later as a grand duchy until 1918.. The title of all of the following rulers was "landgrave" (German: …

The Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel (German: Landgrafschaft Hessen-Kassel), spelled Hesse-Cassel during its entire existence, was a state in the Holy Roman Empire that was directly subject to the Emperor.The state was created in 1567 when the Landgraviate of Hesse was divided upon the death of Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse.His eldest son William IV inherited the northern half of …