WebThe Great Wrath (Finnish: isoviha, lit. 'the great wrath/hostility', in contemporary sources: venäläisen ylivallan aika , 'Era of Russian domination/supremacy'; Swedish : den stora ofreden ) was a period of Finnish history dominated by the Russian invasion and subsequent military occupation of Finland , then part of the Swedish Empire , from 1714 until the …

WebThe Winter of Discontent was the period between November 1978 and February 1979 in the United Kingdom characterised by widespread strikes by private, and later public, sector trade unions demanding pay rises greater than the limits Prime Minister James Callaghan and his Labour Party government had been imposing, against Trades Union Congress …